1894 Brewer’s / O / Ortus
“Ortus a quercu, non a salʹice.” Latin for “sprung from an oak, and not from a willow”—i.e. stubborn stuff; one that cannot bend to circumstances.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.