primitus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From prīmus (“first”) + -itus.
Adverb edit
prīmitus (not comparable)
- originally, at first, from the first, from/at first flush
- 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:
- Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]
- But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]
- Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]
Related terms edit
References edit
- “primitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “primitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- primitus 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)
- primitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.