See also: Primo, primó, and přímo

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Italian primo (first). Doublet of prime.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːmoʊ

Noun edit

primo (plural primos)

  1. (music) The principal part of a duet.

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Adjective edit

primo (not comparable)

  1. (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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Anagrams edit

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun edit

primo

  1. (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin

Synonyms edit

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Esperanto edit

 
Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun edit

primo (accusative singular primon, plural primoj, accusative plural primojn)

  1. (mathematics) prime number

French edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

primo

  1. first (before anything else)
    Synonym: premièrement

Further reading edit

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)

  1. male cousin
    Synonym: curmán

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin prīmus.

Adjective edit

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

  1. first
  2. (mathematics) prime
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Noun edit

primo m (plural primos)

  1. (mathematics) prime number
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Verb edit

primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Hiligaynon edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/, [ˈpɾi.mo]
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun edit

primo (feminine prima)

  1. male cousin (of any degree of cousinhood)

Hypernyms edit

Italian edit

Italian numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: uno, un
    Ordinal: primo
    Ordinal abbreviation:
    Adverbial: una volta
    Multiplier: singolo
    Distributive: singolarmente

Alternative forms edit

  •  m,  f (abbreviation, in general)
  • I (abbreviation, in names of monarchs and popes)

Etymology edit

From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime, superlative primissimo)

  1. (ordinal number) first
  2. initial
  3. main, principal
  4. (mathematics) prime
    numero primoprime number

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)

  1. first, first one
  2. former (first of aforementioned two items)

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Descendants edit

  • English: primo

Noun edit

primo m (plural primi)

  1. (cooking) Clipping of primo piatto; first course, starter
    Coordinate term: secondo

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From prīmus (first) +‎ .

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Adverb edit

prīmō (not comparable)

  1. first, firstly, first of all, first up, at first, before all else

Etymology 2 edit

Inflected form of prīmus (first).

Adjective edit

prīmō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prīmus

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

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)

  1. 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)

  1. prime (number)

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premir

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Italian primo or French primo.

Adverb edit

primo

  1. firstly, first

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -imo
  • Syllabification: pri‧mo

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun edit

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

  1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
Hyponyms edit

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)

  1. first
    Synonym: primero
  2. (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)

  1. (mathematics) prime number
    Synonym: número primo

Noun edit

primo m (plural primos)

  1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person
    Synonym: pardillo
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Verb edit

primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premir
  2. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Further reading edit

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/, [ˈpɾi.mo]

Noun edit

primo (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜓ) (archaic)

  1. cousin
    Synonym: pinsan
  2. friend
    Synonym: kaibigan

Further reading edit

  • primo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018