prīmus, prīma, prīmum

Definitions for prīmus

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
first, foremost, chief, principal
English derivatives:
primary primate prime primeval primer premier primitive prim primo-geniture prima facie primordial primrose

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
Superl. to PRIOR
2
Furthest in front, foremost, leading; ~i pedes, the fore-feet; ~i dentes, the front teeth. (b) (emphasizing frons); ~ a fronte, ~a facie, outwardly, at a superficial glance (in quots., transf.). (c) the front part of.
3
Furthest out (as the part first encountered) uttermost, extreme. (b) the furthest point or extremity of.
4
First in order of time, earliest. (b) the first stage or earliest part of (a period, process). (c) (of persons) earliest in respect of some action, etc.
5
(pred.) As the first person, etc., to do or experience something. (b) as the first person, etc., to be dealt with.

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Sentences with prīmus

Latin to English

In qui primus egredior locus, Troia voco.Compare The first place at which they landed is called Troy.

Primus classis voco.Compare The first class is called.

Primus quattuor legio populus tribunus creo.Compare For the first four legions the people appointed the tribunes.

Primus vere rosam atque autumno carpere poma.Compare His the first rose of spring, the earliest apples in autumn.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 181.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1457.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
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): 119.

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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.

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Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "prīmus, prīma, prīmum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified September 18, 2023. Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/primus-prima-primum.