primitus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From prīmus (first) +‎ -itus.

Adverb

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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 []
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References

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  • 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.