primo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”). Doublet of prime.
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primo (plural primos)
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primo (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Best; first-class.
- 2010, Marie Kanger-Born, Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander, page 16:
- We strung Christmas lights around the ceiling to frame it. The final touches of coolness were my two spinning disco lights in the front room. That apartment was like my canvas and it was a primo party spot.
- 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times[1]:
- I had to contort a bit to see during Act I, but the theater was not full — opera tickets, even at such prices, are a luxury for many Hungarians — so during the first intermission I moved to a primo orchestra seat, with not just the knowledge but the assistance of an usher.
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Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pri‧mo
Noun edit
primo
- (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin
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primo (accusative singular primon, plural primoj, accusative plural primojn)
French edit
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primo
- first (before anything else)
- Synonym: premièrement
Further reading edit
- “primo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.
Noun edit
primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)
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- (prime): número primo
Noun edit
primo m (plural primos)
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primo
Hiligaynon edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.
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primo (feminine prima)
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Italian edit
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Cardinal: uno, un Ordinal: primo Ordinal abbreviation: 1º Adverbial: una volta Multiplier: singolo Distributive: singolarmente | ||||
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
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Adjective edit
primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime, superlative primissimo)
- (ordinal number) first
- initial
- main, principal
- (mathematics) prime
- numero primo ― prime number
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- primamente
- primissimo (“very first”)
Noun edit
primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)
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Descendants edit
- → English: primo
Noun edit
primo m (plural primi)
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpriː.moː/, [ˈpriːmoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpri.mo/, [ˈpriːmo]
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Etymology 1 edit
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prīmō (not comparable)
- first, firstly, first of all, first up, at first, before all else
Etymology 2 edit
Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).
Adjective edit
prīmō
References edit
- “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- primo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
- (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
- (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pri‧mo
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.
Noun edit
primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
- male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
Noun edit
primo m (plural primos)
- prime (number)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian primo or French primo.
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primo
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.
Noun edit
primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
- cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
Adjective edit
primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)
- first
- Synonym: primero
- (mathematics) prime
- 2002, Martin Gardner (translation by Luis Bou García), Huevos, nudos y otras mistificaciones matemáticas, page 207:
- Todos ellos son impares, excepto el 2, que es reputado como «el más primo» de todos los primos
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Noun edit
primo m (plural primos)
- (mathematics) prime number
- Synonym: número primo
Noun edit
primo m (plural primos)
- (colloquial) sucker, gullible person
- Synonym: pardillo
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Verb edit
primo
- first-person singular present indicative of premir
- first-person singular present indicative of primar
Further reading edit
- “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
primo (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜓ) (archaic)
Further reading edit
- “primo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, 2018