primus

English

Etymology

From Latin, meaning "the first".

Noun

primus

  1. One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognate to Lithuanian pirmas, English first.

Pronunciation

Adjective

prīmus m (feminine prīma, neuter prīmum); first/second declension

  1. (ordinal) first

Usage notes

It is the superlative degree of an adjective with only comparative (prior, prior, prius) and superlative degrees without a positive degree. It stems from the preposition pre. In the same way for post, one has posterior and postremus.

Inflection

Number Singular Plural
Case \ Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
nominative prīmus prīma prīmum prīmī prīmae prīma
genitive prīmī prīmae prīmī prīmōrum prīmārum prīmōrum
dative prīmō prīmae prīmō prīmīs prīmīs prīmīs
accusative prīmum prīmam prīmum prīmōs prīmās prīma
ablative prīmō prīmā prīmō prīmīs prīmīs prīmīs
vocative prīme prīma prīmum prīmī prīmae prīma

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