principia

From Latin prīncipia.

principia pl (plural only)

1. (archaic) first principles; elementary material
   • 1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith

     I do really think, that your book might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act

   • 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barbara S⁠——”, in The Last Essays of Elia. , London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 116:

     They were her principia, her rudiments; the elementary atoms; the little steps by which she pressed forward to perfection.

• principial

principia

1. inflection of principiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /priːnˈki.pi.a/, or IPA^(key): /prinˈki.pi.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /prinˈt͡ʃi.pi.a/,

prī̆ncipia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of prī̆ncipium

• principia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “principia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “principia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

principia

1. inflection of principiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾinˈθipja/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾinˈsipja/
• Rhymes: -ipja
• Syllabification: prin‧ci‧pia

principia

1. inflection of principiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative