prima
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prima (not comparable)
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prima f (plural primes)
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prima f (plural primes)
- premium (a bonus paid in addition to normal payments)
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prima
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- “prima” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “prima”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “prima” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “prima” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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prima (indeclinable)
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prima
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- (informal, slang) priem
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From Italian prima (“first, best”), which together with secunda and tertia denoted the three classes of wares. The latter two fell out of use, but prima stayed, although with a changed meaning.
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prima (not comparable)
- excellent
- Dat is een prima wijntje.
- That's an excellent wine.
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prima (not comparable)
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prima
- third-person singular past historic of primer
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prima f (plural primas)
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prima f (plural primas)
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prima
- inflection of primar:
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prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)
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Borrowed from Dutch prima, from Italian prima, from Latin [Term?].
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prima
- prime:
- first
- (mathematics) having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- prima
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- “prima” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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- 1ª (abbreviation)
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See primo.
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prima f
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prima
- before
- Antonym: dopo
- Pensa prima di parlare. ― Think before you speak.
- once, formerly
- beforehand, in advance
- earlier, sooner
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prima f (plural prime)
- the first
- an opening night; a premier
- the first year at school
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- di prima
- il prima possibile
- prima del tempo
- prima di tutto
- primadonna
- prima o poi
- primatista
- primato
- quanto prima
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- Norwegian Bokmål: prima
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From Portuguese prima.
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prima
- cousin (daughter of the uncle)
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prima
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prīma
- inflection of prīmus:
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prīmā
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- prima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- prima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- at daybreak: prima luce
- from one's entry into civil life: ab ineunte (prima) aetate (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
- to teach children the rudiments: pueros elementa (prima) docere
- premises; consequences: prima (superiora); consequentia (Fin. 4. 19. 54)
- at daybreak: prima luce
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From Italian prima (“before, once, at first, earlier”), feminine singular of primo (“first, initial, main”), from Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos, from Proto-Italic *priisemos (“foremost, first”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before, in front”).
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prima
- Only used in a prima vista (“sight-read”)
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Shortened from Old Occitan primavera, from Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”). Cf. the unshortened Gascon form primavèra.
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prima f (plural primas)
- spring (seasons)
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Seasons in Occitan · sasons (layout · text) · category | |||
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prima (“spring”) | estiu (“summer”) | auton (“autumn”) | ivèrn (“winter”) |
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From Portuguese prima and Spanish prima and Kabuverdianu prima.
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prima
- cousin (daughter of the uncle)
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From Latin prīma, feminine of prīmus (“first”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-.
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prima f (plural primas)
- female equivalent of primo: a female cousin
- (music) an instrument’s thinnest string
- (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) the first canonical hour
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prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)
- (of birds of prey) female
- Açor-prima.
- Female goshawk.
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prima
- inflection of premir:
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prima
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a prima (third-person singular present primează, past participle primat) 1st conj.
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infinitive | a prima | ||||||
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gerund | primând | ||||||
past participle | primat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | primez | primezi | primează | primăm | primați | primează | |
imperfect | primam | primai | prima | primam | primați | primau | |
simple perfect | primai | primași | primă | primarăm | primarăți | primară | |
pluperfect | primasem | primaseși | primase | primaserăm | primaserăți | primaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să primez | să primezi | să primeze | să primăm | să primați | să primeze | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | primează | primați | |||||
negative | nu prima | nu primați |
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prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)
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prima f (plural primas, masculine primo, masculine plural primos)
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From primo.
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prima f (plural primas)
- bonus
- Synonyms: bonificación, bono, premio
- premium (amount to be paid for an insurance policy)
- (music) the highest-pitched string on a string instrument
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael:
- Oíase como un ruido de alborozo en la enramada, donde un cantor unía las notas de su voz bronca a las de la prima y la bordona, atrayendo al sitio algunas mozas de trenza y pollera corta, y no pocas comadres de edad madura.
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prima f
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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prima
Further reading edit
- “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Latin prima, from Latin primus (“first”).
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prima (not inflected)