primo

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See also: Primo, primó, and přímo

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

primo (plural primos)

  1. (music) The principal part of a duet.
  2. (slang, drugs) Any high-quality drug.
  3. (slang, drugs) A marijuana cigarette that has been laced with cocaine or heroin.

Antonyms

Adjective

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:
      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.

Translations

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun

primo

  1. (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin
    Synonym: igtagsa

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo

Noun

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

  1. (mathematics) prime number

French

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Pronunciation

Adverb

primo

  1. first (before anything else)
    Synonym: premièrement

Further reading

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

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

  1. male cousin
    Synonym: curmán

Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

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

  1. first
  2. (mathematics) prime
Synonyms

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

  1. (mathematics) prime number
Synonyms

Verb

primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Hiligaynon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun

primo (feminine prima)

  1. male cousin (of any degree of cousinhood)

Hypernyms

Italian

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

Noun

primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)

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

Descendants

  • English: primo

Noun

primo m (plural primi)

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

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From prīmus (first) +‎ .

Alternative forms

Adverb

prīmō (not comparable)

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

Etymology 2

Inflected form of prīmus (first).

Adjective

prīmō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prīmus

References

  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

primo m (feminine prima)

  1. (Old Lombard) the first

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

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

  1. male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

  1. prime (number)

Etymology 3

Verb

primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premir

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo or French primo.

Adverb

primo

  1. firstly, first

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

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

  1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
Hyponyms

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

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)
Derived terms

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

  1. (mathematics) prime number
    Synonym: número primo

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

  1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person
    Synonym: pardillo
Derived terms

Verb

primo

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

Further reading

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

primo (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜓ) (archaic)

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

Further reading

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