primeiro

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Galician

Galician numbers (edit)
10
1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal (standard / masculine): un
    Cardinal (standard / feminine): unha
    Cardinal (reintegrationist / masculine): um
    Cardinal (reintegrationist / feminine): umha, uma
    Ordinal: primeiro
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1º
Galician Wikipedia article on 1

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese primeiro, from Latin prīmārius (“one of the first”), from prīmus (“first”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

primeiro (feminine primeira, masculine plural primeiros, feminine plural primeiras)

  1. first
    Antonyms: derradeiro, último
    • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
      eu quero ser a permeyra,
      que lle ofrezo decontado
      trinta netos de Manteyga
      I want to be the first one,
      because I offer her right away
      thirty pints of butter

Related terms

Adverb

primeiro

  1. first

References

  • “primeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “primeiro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “primeiro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “primeiro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “primeiro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin prīmārius (“one of the first”), from prīmus (“first”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

primeiro m (plural primeiros, feminine primeira, feminine plural primeiras)

  1. first, ordinal form of ũu

Descendants

  • Fala: primeiru
  • Galician: primeiro
  • Portuguese: primeiro

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: um
    Ordinal: primeiro
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1.º
    Multiplier: único, singular
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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese primeiro, from Latin prīmārius (“one of the first”), from prīmus (“first”). Doublet of primário. By surface analysis, primo +‎ -eiro.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: pri‧mei‧ro

Adjective

primeiro (feminine primeira, masculine plural primeiros, feminine plural primeiras)

  2. first (ordinal form of um (“one”))
    Antonyms: último, derradeiro

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:primeiro.

Noun

primeiro m (plural primeiros)

  2. the first one
  4. first (the first day of the month)

Usage notes

Other days of the month are expressed with cardinals rather than ordinals.

Adverb

primeiro (not comparable)

  2. first (before all others)
    Eu fiz isso primeiro.
    I did that first.
  4. first of all (used to introduce the first of a series of remarks, often with an angry tone)
    Synonym: primeiramente
    Primeiro, você não tem evidência de nada disso.
    First of all, you have no evidence of any of this.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:primeiro.

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