primate

See also: Primate

English

WOTD – 29 March 2016

A gorilla, which is a type of primate, in Duisburg Zoo, Duisburg, Germany

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪmeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: pri‧mate

Etymology 1

From French primate. [1876]

Noun

primate (plural primates)

1. (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.

   Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.

2. (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:primate

• ape
• aye-aye
• capuchin
• douroucouli
• entrina
• exarch
• galago

• gibbon
• great ape
• howler monkey
• human, human being
• indri
• lemur
• loris

• marmoset
• monkey
• night monkey
• owl monkey
• patriarch
• potto
• saki
• simian

• spider monkey
• squirrel monkey
• tamarin
• tarsier
• titi
• uakari
• woolly monkey

Translations

mammal

• Afrikaans: primaat
• Armenian: պրիմատ (primat)
• Catalan: primat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靈長目動物, 灵长目动物 (língzhǎngmù dòngwù), 靈長目 (zh), 灵长目动物 (língzhǎngmù)

• Czech: primát (cs) m
• Dutch: primaat (nl) m
• Finnish: kädellinen (fi)
• French: primate (fr) m
• Georgian: პრიმატი (ṗrimaṭi)
• German: Primat (de) m
• Greek: πρωτεύον n (protévon)

• Icelandic: prímati m, fremdardýr n
• Italian: primati m (plurale tantum), primate (it)
• Japanese: 霊長類 (ja) (れいちょうるい, reichōrui)
• Lithuanian: primatas (lt) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: primat m

  Nynorsk: primat m

• Portuguese: primata (pt) m
• Russian: прима́т (ru) m (primát)
• Spanish: primate (es) m
• Swedish: primat c
• Vietnamese: động vật có tay, động vật linh trưởng

Etymology 2

From Old French primat, from a noun use of Latin primat-, from primus (“prime, first rank”). Compare English primus, of similar derivation and meaning. [circa 1200]

Noun

primate (plural primates)

1. (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 circumscription.
2. (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Primate of All England
• Primate of England
• Primate of the Gauls

• Primates
• primateship

Related terms

• primatial
• primus

Translations

archbishop or bishop

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總主教 (zh), 总主教 (zh) (zǒngzhǔjiào)

• Dutch: primaat (nl) m
• Finnish: priimas (fi)
• French: primat (fr) m
• German: Primat (de) m, Primas (de) m
• Italian: primate (it) m

• Japanese: 大主教 (だいしゅきょう, daishukyō)
• Manx: ard-aspick m
• Maori: pīhopa mātāmua, paraimete
• Portuguese: primado (pt) m
• Spanish: primado (es) m
• Vietnamese: tổng giám mục (vi)

See also

• ultimate

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.mat/

Noun

primate m (plural primates)

1. primate (mammal)

See also

• primat m
• primauté
• primatie

Further reading

• “primate” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• empirât, trempai

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Galician

Noun

primate m (plural primates)

1. primate (animal)

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Italian

Noun

primate m (plural primati)

1. primate (ecclesiastical title)

Related terms

• primati (mammals) (plurale tantum)
• primato (primacy)

Anagrams

• impetra, temprai

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Spanish

Noun

primate m (plural primates)

1. primate (animal)