primate
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From Old French or French primat, from a noun use of Latin primat-, from primus (“‘prime, first rank’”)
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primate (plural primates)
- (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
- Primates range from lemures to gorillas
- (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human, or large monkey.
- (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circonscription.
- (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
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- See also Wikisaurus:primate
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mammal
archbishop or bishop
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primate m. (plural: primates)
- primate (mammal)
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primate m. (plural primates)
- primate (animal)
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primate (plural primati)
- primate (ecclesiastical title)
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- primati (mammals) (plurale tantum)
- primato (primacy)
