Associations to the word «Urtext»

Wiktionary

URTEXT, noun. A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.
URTEXT, noun. (music) The original version of a piece of music, as created by the composer.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates