principalmente

Galician

Etymology

principal +‎ -mente

Adverb

principalmente

1. mainly
2. principally

Related terms

• principal

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Italian

Etymology

principale +‎ -mente

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prin.t͡ʃi.palˈmen.te/
• Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pal‧mén‧te

Adverb

principalmente

1. (archaic) in the first place, firstly
   • c. 13^th century, Ricordano Malespini, “Come Nino ſignoreggiò tutto el mondo, & come Appollonio ſe edificare Fieſole [How Ninus ruled the whole world, and how Apollonius was able to build Fiesole]”, in Historia antica‎^[1], published 1568, page 2:

     Dico principalmente che da Adamo inſino a Nino Re, […] ſi fue anni dumila trecento quaranta quattro.

     Firstly I say that, from Adam to King Ninus, there were two-thousand three-hundred forty-four years

2. mainly

   Synonym: soprattutto

3. principally

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Portuguese

Etymology

principal +‎ -mente

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾĩ.si.paɫ.ˈmẽ.tɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾĩ.si.paw.ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/
• Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pal‧men‧te

Adverb

principalmente (comparative mais principalmente superlative o mais principalmente)

1. principally, mainly

   Synonym: mormente

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:principalmente.

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Spanish

Etymology

From principal +‎ -mente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾinˌθipalˈmente/, [pɾĩn̟ˌθi.palˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /pɾinˌsipalˈmente/, [pɾĩnˌsi.palˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
• Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pal‧men‧te

Adverb

principalmente

1. mainly
2. principally

Related terms

• principal
• principio
• príncipe

Further reading

• “principalmente” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.