In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
ROOTAGE
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being; “the Italian beginning of the Renaissance”; “Jupiter was the origin of the radiation”; “Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River”; “communism’s Russian root”
rootage, root system
(noun) a developed system of roots
rootage
(noun) fixedness by or as if by roots; “strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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