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According to the Oxford English dictionary, the origin of the word is ancient Greek, and there it meant "something received or taken; something taken for granted; an argument, title".
In English it has several meanings. In mathematics it means a theorem, something that has been proved, but usually a minor theorem obtained as a stepping stone on the way to a more important theorem.
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