primitia

English

Etymology

Latin primitiae (“first fruits”)

Noun

primitia (plural primitias or primitiae)

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) The first fruits; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.
    • Edmund Spenser
      The primitias of your parsonage.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

prīmitia f (genitive prīmitiae); first declension

  1. (chiefly in the plural) first fruits

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative prīmitia prīmitiae
genitive prīmitiae prīmitiārum
dative prīmitiae prīmitiīs
accusative prīmitiam prīmitiās
ablative prīmitiā prīmitiīs
vocative prīmitia prīmitiae

Descendants

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