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Latin
Etymology
prīmōgenitus (“first-born”) + -ālis
Pronunciation
Adjective
prīmōgenitālis (neuter prīmōgenitāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- firstborn; primogenital
- the first of all as to origin; original; primeval
c. 3rd century, Tertullianus, chapter XX, in J-P Migne, editor, Adversus Valentinianos [Against the Valentinians], Latin edition, volume 2, quoted in Patrologiae cursus completus, Paris, published 1844, →OCLC, CPL 16, pages 523–594:unde et Sabbatum dictum est ab hebdomade sedis suae et Ogdoada mater Achamoth ab argumento ogdoadis primigenitalis.- Whence he had the additional name of Sabbatum from the hebdomadal nature of his abode; his mother Achamoth, too, had the title Ogdoada, after the precedent of the primeval Ogdoad.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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