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primusnormalized · primus2 analyses · 2 lemmas
Lemma 1primus
adjective
first, foremost/best, chief, principal; nearest/next
Morphology1 analysis
masculine nominative singularprim + us · regular
Lewis & Short
prīmus, a, um,
[obsol. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; privus, privo, , and pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as to the second, is prior; ).
: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, , ).
In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, — With quisque, the first possible, the very first. — : prīma, ōrum, , the first part, the beginning. — Of the first principles or elements of things: a primo, from the beginning, at first; Halm ad loc.: Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first.
First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble — Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part: primas concedere, to yield the first place: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly, §. — Hence, , primo and primum; also, ante- and and very rare, prime and primiter the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice.
prīmō, at first, at the beginning, first, firstly.
With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc.
(Mostly for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo.
prīmum, at first, first, in the first place, in the beginning ().
In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum.
Without other adverbs.
Strengthened with omnium, first of all.
With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.
Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as.
Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (: nunc demum, now at last).
With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.).
With or other expression of time, for the first time.
prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. P.; P.
prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and ): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Scop. in Egitto.
Lemma 2Primus
nounmasculine
first, foremost/best, chief, principal; nearest/next
Morphology1 analysis
nominative singularprim + us · regular
Lewis & Short
prīmus, a, um,
[obsol. pri (prei); whence also prior, priscus; privus, privo, , and pro], the first, first (properly only when three or more are referred to. The first, as to the second, is prior; ).
: leonem primus, aut in primis ferire: utque pedum primis infans vestigia plantis institerat (= ut primum, , ).
In time or place, first, fore, foremost, the first part; sometimes to be translated, the end, extremity, — With quisque, the first possible, the very first. — : prīma, ōrum, , the first part, the beginning. — Of the first principles or elements of things: a primo, from the beginning, at first; Halm ad loc.: Madv. ad loc.: in primo, in front, before, in the beginning, first.
First in rank or station, chief, principal, most excellent, eminent, distinguished, noble — Also, most conspicuous, chief, in a bad sense: primas dare, to give the first place, ascribe the greatest importance to a thing: primas deferre, to transfer the first or principal part: primas concedere, to yield the first place: cum primis, and in primis (also written in one word, impri-mis), with or among the first, chiefly, especially, principally, particularly, §. — Hence, , primo and primum; also, ante- and and very rare, prime and primiter the form primo is usually limited to that which is strictly first in time; primum in enumerations of contemporary facts, things, or arguments, where the order is at the speaker's choice.
prīmō, at first, at the beginning, first, firstly.
With dein, deinde, inde, post, postea, mox, denique, nunc.
(Mostly for primum.) With iterum, rursus, secundo.
prīmum, at first, first, in the first place, in the beginning ().
In enumerations, with a foll. deinde, tum.
Without other adverbs.
Strengthened with omnium, first of all.
With ut, ubi, simulac, cum.
Ut primum, ubi primum, simul ac primum, cum primum, as soon as ever, as soon as.
Nunc primum, now first, now for the first time (: nunc demum, now at last).
With dum (also by Plaut. joined in one word, pri-mumdum), in the first place, first (anteclass.).
With or other expression of time, for the first time.
prīmē, es pecially: fabula prime proba, Naev. P.; P.
prīmĭter, at first, first of all (ante- and ): eripis primiter dapes, Pompon. ; Inscr. (of the beginning of the third century of Christ) Lab. Epigr. Scop. in Egitto.
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