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- \ \ [14] The antecedents of ceremony are obscure. We can trace it back to Latin caerimōnia ‘religious rites’, but there the trail stops. It probably arrived in English via Old French ceremonie.
Word origins - 2ed. J. Ayto. 2005.
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