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French
Etymology
Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin primitiae, with change of first vowel after praemissa.
Pronunciation
Noun
prémices f pl (plural only)
- (literary) first fruits, primitiae
- (literary) signs, auguries
Vous avez eu les prémices de son coeur.- You were the first to win over her heart.
- (figuratively) beginning, start
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