thumb|A silver talisman from the 6th or 7th century, inscribed with words similar to abracadabra Abracadabra is a magic word, historically used as an apotropaic incantation on amulets and common today in stage magic. The actual origin is unknown, but one of the first appearances of the word was in a second-century work by Roman physician Serenus Sammonicus.
thumb|A silver talisman from the 6th or 7th century, inscribed with words similar to abracadabra Abracadabra is a magic word, historically used as an apotropaic incantation on amulets and common today in stage magic. The actual origin is unknown, but one of the first appearances of the word was in a second-century work by Roman physician Serenus Sammonicus.
== Etymology ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).