primo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːmoʊ
Antonyms
Adjective
primo (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Best; first-class.
- 2010, Marie Kanger-Born, Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander, page 16:
- We strung Christmas lights around the ceiling to frame it. The final touches of coolness were my two spinning disco lights in the front room. That apartment was like my canvas and it was a primo party spot.
- 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
- I had to contort a bit to see during Act I, but the theater was not full — opera tickets, even at such prices, are a luxury for many Hungarians — so during the first intermission I moved to a primo orchestra seat, with not just the knowledge but the assistance of an usher.
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Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pri‧mo
Related terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁi.mo/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “primo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.
Synonyms
- (prime): número primo
Synonyms
Hiligaynon
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/, [ˈpɾi.mo]
- Hyphenation: pri‧mo
Hypernyms
- pakaduha (“second cousin”)
- pakaisa (“first cousin”)
Italian
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← 0 | 1 | 2 → | 10 → | |
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Cardinal: uno, un Ordinal: primo Ordinal abbreviation: 1º Adverbial: una volta Multiplier: singolo Distributive: singolarmente | ||||
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Alternative forms
- 1º m, 1ª f (abbreviation, in general)
- I (abbreviation, in names of monarchs and popes)
Etymology
From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpri.mo/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -imo
- Hyphenation: prì‧mo
Adjective
primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime, superlative primissimo)
- (ordinal number) first
- initial
- main, principal
- (mathematics) prime
- numero primo ― prime number
Derived terms
- primamente
- primissimo (“very first”)
Noun
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: primo
Noun
primo m (plural primi)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpriː.moː/, [ˈpriːmoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpri.mo/, [ˈpriːmo]
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).
References
- “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- primo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
- (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
- (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.
Noun
primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
- male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)
Etymology 2
From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -imo
- Syllabification: pri‧mo
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.
Noun
primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
- cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.
Adjective
primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)
- first
- Synonym: primero
- (mathematics) prime
- 2002, Martin Gardner (translation by Luis Bou García), Huevos, nudos y otras mistificaciones matemáticas, page 207:
- Todos ellos son impares, excepto el 2, que es reputado como «el más primo» de todos los primos
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Derived terms
Verb
primo
Further reading
- “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/, [ˈpɾi.mo]
- Hyphenation: pri‧mo
Further reading
- “primo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018