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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1456.prīmum on page 1456
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prīmum first
prīmum is a Latin Adverb that primarily means first.
Definitions for prīmum
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
first, in the first place
- 2
quam prīmum, as soon as possible
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The first part, beginning; (esp. in phrs.): in ~o, at the beginning; also, in front; a ~o, from the beginning, from the start. (b) (pl.)
- 2
The front line or position; (pl.) the front parts or edge (of).
- 3
(pl.) First place, supremacy.
Adverb
- 1
First (in a series), in the first place, as the first point or act. (b) (followed by other advs.). (c) (strengthened by omnium) first of all.
- 2
First in order of preference, best, above all.
Sentences with prīmum
Latin to English
Plūrēs virī crēdunt hoc bellum esse peius quam prīmum bellum.Compare More men believe that this war is worse than the first war.
Credo ego Amorem primum apud homines carnificinam commentum. [Cistelaria, 203]Compare I do believe it was Love that first devised the torturer's profession here on earth.
Humana ante oculos foede cum vita iaceret in terris oppresa gravi sub religione quae caput a caeli regionibus ostendebat horribili super aspectu mortalibus instans, primum Graius homo mortalis tollere contra est oculos ausus primusquue obsistere contra.Compare When man's life lay for all to see foully groveling upon the ground, crushed beneath the weight of Religion, which displayed her head in the regions of heaven, threatening mortals from on high with horrible aspect, a man of Greece was the first that dared to uplift mortal eyes against her, the first to make stand against her.
Quam multa animalia hoc primum cognovimus saeculo, quam multa negotia ne hoc quidem! Multa venientis aevi populus ignota nobis sciet; multa saeculis tunc futuris cum memoria nostri exoleverit resevantur. Pusilla res mundus est, nisi in illo quod quaertat omnis mundus habeat.Compare How many animals we have come to know for the first time in our own days! Many, too, that are unknown to us, the people of a coming day will know. Many discoveries are reserved for the ages to be, when our memory shall have perished. The world would be a puny thing if future ages found in it nothing to investigate.
Atque omnis primum ad cursus luna in duodecim mensis describo annus.Compare And first of all he divides the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon.
Ego tu non demens puto, qui hic audeo primum facio, deinde confiteor?Compare Shall I not deem you mad, you who have dared first to do, then to confess this?
Iuvat integros accedere fontis atque haurire, iuvatque novos decerpere flores insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae; primum quod magnis doceo de rebus et artis religionum animum nodis exsolvere pergo, deinde quod obscura de re tam lucida pango carmina, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore.Compare I love to approach virgin springs and there to drink: I love to pluck fresh flowers, and to seek an illustrious chaplet for my head from fields whence ere this the Muses have crowned the brows of none; first because my teaching is of high matters, and I proceed to unloose the mind from the close knots of religion; next because the subject is so dark and the lines I write so clear, as I touch all with the Muses's grace.
Primum quaero, num tu senatus causa tuus permitto.Compare I ask first, whether you leave your case to the senate.
Declension table for prīmum
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | prīmum | prīma |
| Gen. | prīmī | prīmōrum |
| Dat. | prīmō | prīmīs |
| Acc. | prīmum | prīma |
| Abl. | prīmō | prīmīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 484.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1456.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "prīmum (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/primum.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 484.on page 484
