cum primis

Latin

Alternative forms

• cumprīmīs

Adverb

cum prīmīs

1. first, first of all, before all others, better than all others
   • 1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I:

     Prima Venerem repraesentat... In Caelum recepta rei Meretriciae praesedit, quam cum primis intellegere putabatur...

     The first [statue] displays Venus... Received into Heaven, she presided over all things related to Whoring, which she was thought to understand before all others...