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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adverbial accusative of prīmus.
Adverb
prīmum (not comparable)
- first, at first, in the first place, first of all, for the first time, in advance, immediately
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.342–343:
- “ urbem Troiānam prīmum dulcisque meōrum / rēliquiās colerem .”
- “ first I would safeguard the city of Troy and the dear survivors of my .”
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Numeral
prīmum
- inflection of prīmus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “primum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “primum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- primum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) we start by presupposing that..: positum est a nobis primum (c. Acc. c. Inf.)
- (ambiguous) to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
- (ambiguous) to occupy the first, second position in the state: principem (primum), secundum locum dignitatis obtinere
- (ambiguous) the vanguard: agmen primum