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Latin
Noun
prīmipīlus m (genitive prīmipīlī); second declension
- first centurion of the triārii (centurion of the first pīlus of the triārii)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “primipilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “primipilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- primipilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “primipilus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “primipilus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin