primitia
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin primitiae (“first fruits”)
Noun
primitia (plural primitias or primitiae)
- (obsolete) The first fruits.
- (UK, law, obsolete) The first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.
- Edmund Spenser
- the primitias of your parsonage
- Edmund Spenser
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “primitia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Noun
prīmitia f (genitive prīmitiae); first declension
- (chiefly in the plural) first fruits
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | prīmitia | prīmitiae |
Genitive | prīmitiae | prīmitiārum |
Dative | prīmitiae | prīmitiīs |
Accusative | prīmitiam | prīmitiās |
Ablative | prīmitiā | prīmitiīs |
Vocative | prīmitia | prīmitiae |