See also: Prima, primá, príma, primă, and přímá

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prima (not comparable)

  1. most important

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾima/, [ˈpɾi.ma]

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prima f (plural primes)

  1. cousin, female equivalent of primu

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prima f (plural primes)

  1. premium (a bonus paid in addition to normal payments)

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prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

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  • IPA(key): [ˈprɪma]
  • (file)

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prima (indeclinable)

  1. (informal) nice, great

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prima

  1. nice

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  • prima in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • prima in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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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)

  1. excellent
    Dat is een prima wijntje.
    That's an excellent wine.

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prima (not comparable)

  1. good, fine
    Ik vind het helemaal prima.
    That's completely fine with me.

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prima

  1. third-person singular past historic of primer

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prima f (plural primas)

  1. female equivalent of primo (cousin)
    Synonym: curmá
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prima f (plural primas)

  1. bonus

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prima

  1. inflection of primar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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From Italian prima.

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prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) great, super
    Synonyms: toll, klasse, schnieke

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  • prima” in Duden online
  • prima” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Borrowed from Dutch prima, from Italian prima, from Latin [Term?].

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ma
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

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prima

  1. prime:
    1. first
    2. (mathematics) having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
  2. prima

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  • (abbreviation)

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See primo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ima
  • Hyphenation: prì‧ma

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prima f

  1. feminine singular of primo

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prima

  1. before
    Antonym: dopo
    Pensa prima di parlare.Think before you speak.
  2. once, formerly
  3. beforehand, in advance
  4. earlier, sooner

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prima f (plural prime)

  1. the first
  2. an opening night; a premier
  3. the first year at school

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  • Norwegian Bokmål: prima

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From Portuguese prima.

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prima

  1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

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prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

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prīma

  1. inflection of prīmus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

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prīmā

  1. ablative feminine singular of prīmus
    prīmā lūceat first light, at daybreak

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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)

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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

  1. 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)

  1. spring (seasons)

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Seasons in Occitan · sasons (layout · text) · category
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

  1. 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)

  1. female equivalent of primo: a female cousin
  2. (music) an instrument’s thinnest string
  3. (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) the first canonical hour

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prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)

  1. (of birds of prey) female
    Açor-prima.
    Female goshawk.
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prima

  1. inflection of premir:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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prima

  1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of prim
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Borrowed from French primer.

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a prima (third-person singular present primează, past participle primat) 1st conj.

  1. to prevail, to take precedent
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Borrowed from Italian prima.

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prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)

  1. (music) unison

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  • prima” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • prima” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)

  1. third-person singular present of primati

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾima/ [ˈpɾi.ma]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ima
  • Syllabification: pri‧ma

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Latin prīma.

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prima f (plural primas, masculine primo, masculine plural primos)

  1. female equivalent of primo (female cousin)
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Etymology 2 edit

From primo.

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prima f (plural primas)

  1. bonus
    Synonyms: bonificación, bono, premio
  2. premium (amount to be paid for an insurance policy)
  3. (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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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prima f

  1. feminine singular of primo

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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prima

  1. inflection of premir:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of primar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin prima, from Latin primus (first).

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prima (not inflected)

  1. excellent; top quality

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