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eldest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ld?st/
- Hyphenation: eld?est
Adjective
eldest
- superlative form of old: most old; greatest in age or seniority.
- eldest son
Usage notes
The normal superlative of old is oldest. The irregular form eldest is sometimes used with family members, but it is otherwise rare.
Synonyms
- oldest
Translations
Adjective
eldest (not comparable)
- (card games) (of a player) Receiving cards from the dealer first, before any other players.
- (card games) (of a hand) Having higher, or superior cards.
- 2003, Thunder Bay Press, The Card Game Set
- Each player draws a card, and the lowest becomes eldest hand.
- 2003, Thunder Bay Press, The Card Game Set
Noun
eldest (plural eldests)
- The eldest child in a family, or individual in a group.
Anagrams
- Ledets, steeld
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
eldest
- inflection of eldast:
- present tense
- past tense
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primitive
English
Alternative forms
- primative (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French primitif, from Latin pr?mit?vus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from pr?mus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??m?t?v/
- Rhymes: -?m?t?v
- Hyphenation: prim?i?tive
Noun
primitive (plural primitives)
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A member of a primitive society.
- A simple-minded person.
- (computing, programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (computing, programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
Synonyms
- word: primitive word, radical, radical word
Translations
Adjective
primitive (comparative more primitive, superlative most primitive)
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- Synonym: backwards
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Crude, obsolete.
- primitive ideas
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- Synonym: radical
- Antonyms: derivative, derived
- 1831, Noah Webster, Rudiments of English Grammar; Being an Abridgment of the Improved Grammar of the English Language, New-Haven, p.6:
- Division of words. Words are primitive or radical, and derivative or compound.
- Of primitive words. Primitive or radical words are such as cannot be divided, or separated into parts which are significant; as man, hope, bless.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- Synonym: imprimitive
- (linguistics, dated) most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of
- Synonym: proto-
- 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, Henry Holt, p. 13
- We infer that other groups of related languages, such as the Germanic (or the Slavic or the Celtic), which show a similar resemblance, have arisen in the same way; it is only an accident of history that for these groups we have no written records of the earlier state of the language, as it was spoken before the differentiation set in. To these unrecorded languages we give names like Primitive Germanic (Primitive Slavic, Primitive Celtic, and so on).
Derived terms
- multiprimitive
- primitiveness
Translations
References
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i.mi.tiv/
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
primitive
- feminine singular of primitif
Etymology 2
By ellipsis of [fonction] primitive.
Noun
primitive f (plural primitives)
- (mathematics) antiderivative
- Antonym: dérivée
See also
- intégrale
Further reading
- “primitive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
primitive
- inflection of primitiv:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
primitive
- feminine plural of primitivo
Latin
Adjective
pr?mit?ve
- vocative masculine singular of pr?mit?vus
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
primitive
- definite singular of primitiv
- plural of primitiv
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
primitive
- definite singular of primitiv
- plural of primitiv
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