Abracadabra
The word abracadabra first appeared in Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, De medicina praecepta, 2d century AD.
The term may be derived from the Aramaic avra kehdabra, “I will create as I speak.”
–Barry J. Blake, Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols, 2010, pg. 146.
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