primoris

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Latin

Etymology

From prīmus (“first”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

primoris (genitive prīmōris); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. first, foremost, closest to the front
  2. earliest
  3. chief, principal

Usage notes

Not attested in the nominative singular or in the neuter in Classical Latin.[1] A nominative singular form prīmor is attested in Medieval Latin.[2]

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. masc./fem.
nominative — prīmōrēs
genitive prīmōris prīmōrum
dative prīmōrī prīmōribus
accusative prīmōrem prīmōrēs
prīmōrīs
ablative prīmōrī
primōre 		prīmōribus
vocative prīmōris prīmōrēs

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1853) Leonhard Schmitz, Charles Anthon, transl., A Grammar of the Latin Language, 3rd edition, page 87
  2. ^ R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “primoris”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

  • “primoris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “primoris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • primoris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to have a superficial knowledge, a smattering of literature, of the sciences: primis (ut dicitur) or primoribus labris gustare or attingere litteras
    • the aristocracy (as a leading class in government): principes or primores
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