prémices

See also: premices

French

Etymology

Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin primitiae, with change of first vowel after praemissa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁe.mis/

• Audio:

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Noun

prémices f pl (plural only)

1. (literary) first fruits, primitiae
2. (literary) signs, auguries

   Vous avez eu les prémices de son coeur.

   You were the first to win over her heart.

3. (figuratively) beginning, start

Further reading

• “prémices”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.