[ 'aksɪəm ]
■ noun
1》 an accepted statement or proposition regarded as being self-evidently true.
2》 chiefly Mathematics a statement or proposition on which an abstractly defined structure is based.
Derivatives
~atic adjective
~atically adverb
Origin
C15: from Fr. ~e or L. ~a , from Gk axiōma , from axios 'worthy'.