primitus

From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -itus.

prīmitus (not comparable)

1. originally, at first, from the first, from/at first flush
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8:

     Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]

     But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]

• prīmiter
• prīmus

• “primitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “primitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• primitus 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)
• primitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.