different between passe vs primitive

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

passe (comparative more passe, superlative most passe)

1. Alternative spelling of passé

Etymology 2

Verb

passe (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)

1. Obsolete spelling of pass

Anagrams

• apess, apses, spaes

Danish

Etymology 1

Verb

passe (imperative pas, infinitive at passe, present tense passer, past tense passede, perfect tense passet)

1. to look after

   Jeg lovede at passe min lillesøster.

   I promised to look after my little sister.

Etymology 2

Verb

passe (imperative pas, infinitive at passe, present tense passer, past tense passede, perfect tense passet)

1. to be true

   Kan det virkelig passe?

   Can it really be true?

2. to fit

   Låget passer ikke til glasset; det må høre til et andet glas.

   The lid doesn't fit with the jar; it must belong to a different jar.

References

• “passe” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

passe

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of passen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s/, /pas/
• Rhymes: -?s, -as

Noun

passe f (plural passes)

1. pass (the act of passing)
2. pass (passageway)
3. (sports) pass

Noun

passe m (plural passes)

1. pass (document allowing entry)

Verb

passe

1. inflection of passer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Derived terms

Further reading

• “passe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pesas

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -as?

Verb

passe

1. inflection of passen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Ladin

Verb

passe

1. inflection of passer:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person singular and plural present subjunctive

Latin

Participle

passe

1. vocative masculine singular of passus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German passen

Verb

passe (imperative pass, present tense passer, passive passes, simple past and past participle passa or passet, present participle passende)

1. to fit (be the right size and shape)
2. to suit (someone)
3. to look after (e.g. children)
4. to pass (a ball; at cards)

References

• “passe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• passa

Etymology

From German passen

Verb

passe (present tense passar, past tense passa, past participle passa, passive infinitive passast, present participle passande, imperative pass)

1. to fit (be the right size and shape)
2. to suit (someone)
3. to look after (e.g. children)
4. to pass (a ball; at cards)

References

• “passe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

passe

1. first-person singular present middle of passati (“to see”)
2. first/second/third-person singular optative active of passati (“to see”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Back-formation from passar (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pas?se

Noun

passe m (plural passes)

1. pass (document granting admission or permission to pass)
2. (sports) pass (the act of moving the ball to another player)
3. an employment contract
4. (bullfighting) pass (the act of tricking the bull into running through the cape)

Verb

passe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of passar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of passar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of passar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of passar

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)

1. (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
2. A member of a primitive society.
3. A simple-minded person.
4. (computing, programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
5. (computing, programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
6. A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
7. (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)

1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.

2. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.

   Synonym: backwards
3. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Crude, obsolete.

   primitive ideas

4. (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.

5. (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
6. (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type

   Synonym: imprimitive

7. (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

1. feminine singular of primitif

Etymology 2

By ellipsis of [fonction] primitive.

Noun

primitive f (plural primitives)

1. (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

1. inflection of primitiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

primitive

1. feminine plural of primitivo

Latin

Adjective

pr?mit?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?mit?vus

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

primitive

1. definite singular of primitiv
2. plural of primitiv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

primitive

1. definite singular of primitiv
2. plural of primitiv