primiero

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Italian

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Old French premier (“first”), from Classical Latin prīmārius (“of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent”). Doublet of primaio and primario

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /priˈmjɛ.ro/
  • Rhymes: -ɛro
  • Hyphenation: pri‧miè‧ro

Adjective

primiero (feminine primiera, masculine plural primieri, feminine plural primiere) (literary)

  1. first:
    1. earliest
      Synonym: primo
      • 1810 [c. 8th century BCE], “Libro IV”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 284–289; republished as Iliade di Omero‎, 4th edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:
        […] chi primiero
        L’accordo vïolò, pasto vedrassi
        Di voraci avoltoi […]
        all’ hoí per próteroi hupèr hórkia dēlḗsanto
        tôn ḗtoi autôn térena khróa gûpes édontai […]
        the first ones to break the agreement will find themselves meal for voracious vultures
    2. most valued
    3. most important
  2. juvenile (of age)
  3. primitive, original
  4. main, prime, principal

Adverb

primiero

  1. (obsolete) firstly, first
    Synonym: per primo

Noun

primiero m (plural primieri)

  1. the first element of a word in a game of charades

Derived terms

References

  • primiero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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