primo

See also: Primo, primó, and přímo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/

Noun

primo (plural primos)

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

Antonyms

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

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

Esperanto

Noun

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

  1. (mathematics) prime number

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʁi.mo/

Adverb

primo

  1. first (before anything else)

Synonyms

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

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

  1. first
  2. (mathematics) prime
Synonyms

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

  1. (mathematics) prime number
Synonyms

Verb

primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

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
    numero primo ― prime number

Derived terms

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)

Noun

primo m (plural primi)

  1. (cooking) Clipping of primo piatto; first course, starter

See also

  • Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpriː.moː/
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Etymology 1

From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -ō.

Adverb

prīmō (not comparable)

  1. first, at first, firstly
Alternative forms

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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. prime (number)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/

Etymology 1

From Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

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

  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

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

  1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person
Synonyms
Derived terms

Verb

primo

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