principum
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Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
prīncipum
Noun[edit]
prīncipum, i, n.
- A beginning, start or origin.
- 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, Liber Unus 4.1:
- Sed debebatur, ut opinor, fatis tantae origo urbis maximique secundum deorum opes imperii principum.
- But the Fates were resolved, as I suppose, upon the founding of such a great city and the beginning of the greatest of empires, second to the power of the gods.
- Sed debebatur, ut opinor, fatis tantae origo urbis maximique secundum deorum opes imperii principum.
- (Transitive): That makes a beginning, that votes first (of the prerogative tribe or curia), the right of voting first.
- (Transitive): A beginner, originator.
- (Plural): Foundations, principles.
- (Military): The foremost ranks, front line.
- (Military): Headquarters, a large open space in a camp containing the tents of officers, standards, etc.