primo

See also: Primo, primó, and přímo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”).

Noun

primo (plural primos)

1. (music) The principal part of a duet.

Antonyms

• secundo

Adjective

primo (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Best; first-class.
   • 2010, Marie Kanger-Born, Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander (page 16)

     We strung Christmas lights around the ceiling to frame it. The final touches of coolness were my two spinning disco lights in the front room. That apartment was like my canvas and it was a primo party spot.

Anagrams

• impro

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun

primo

1. (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin

Synonyms

• igtagsa

Related terms

• ig-agaw

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Esperanto

Noun

primo (accusative singular primon, plural primoj, accusative plural primojn)

1. (mathematics) prime number

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.mo/

Adverb

primo

1. first (before anything else)

Synonyms

• premièrement

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

1. male cousin

Synonyms

• curmán

Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

primo m (feminine singular prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)

1. first
2. (mathematics) prime

Synonyms

• (prime): número primo

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

Synonyms

• número primo

Verb

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

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Italian

Italian ordinal numbers

<  0th	1st	2nd  >
Cardinal : uno     Ordinal : primo

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation, in general) 1º m, 1ª f
• (abbreviation, in names of monarchs and popes) I

Etymology

From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.mo/, [ˈpr̺iː.mo]
• Hyphenation: prì‧mo
• Rhymes: -imo

Adjective

primo (feminine singular prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime)

1. first
2. initial
3. main, principal
4. (mathematics) prime

Noun

primo m (plural primi) (feminine: prima)

1. first, first one
2. initial one
3. main one, principal one
4. former (first of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun)

primo m (plural primi)

1. first course (of a meal), starter

Related terms

• in primo luogo
• materia prima
• primario
• primate
• primato
• primattore
• primavera
• primeggiare
• primitivo
• primizia
• primogenito
• primordiale
• primordio
• primula

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

• pormi, rompi

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpriː.moː/

• Audio (Classical)

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Etymology 1

From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -ō.

Adverb

prīmō (not comparable)

1. first, at first, firstly

Alternative forms

• prīmum

Etymology 2

Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).

Adjective

prīmō

1. dative masculine singular of prīmus
2. dative neuter singular of prīmus
3. ablative masculine singular of prīmus
4. ablative neuter singular of prīmus

References

• primo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• primo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “primo” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
    

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.mu/

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)

Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.mu/

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. prime (number)

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima)

1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)

Usage notes

The noun primo is like several other Spanish nouns with a human referent. The masculine forms are used when the referent is known to be male, a group of males, a group of mixed or unknown gender, or an individual of unknown or unspecified gender. The feminine forms are used if the referent is known to be female or a group of females.

Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Adjective

primo (feminine singular prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)

1. first
2. (mathematics) prime
   • 2002, Martin Gardner (translation by Luis Bou García), Huevos, nudos y otras mistificaciones matemáticas, page 207:

     Todos ellos son impares, excepto el 2, que es reputado como «el más primo» de todos los primos

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

Synonyms

• número primo

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person

Synonyms

• pardillo

Verb

primo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of primar.