different between primeval vs primal

English

Alternative forms

• primaeval, primæval

Etymology

From primevous +? -al. Further, primevous, from Latin primaevus (“in the first or earliest period of life”), from primus (“first”) + aevum (“time, age”); see prime and age.

Pronunciation

• enPR: "pr?m'?v?l, IPA^(key): /?p?a??mi.v?l/

Adjective

primeval (comparative more primeval, superlative most primeval)

1. belonging to the first ages
2. primary; original
3. primitive
   • 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman

     If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• primeval in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• primeval in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin primalis, from Latin primus (“first”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?a?m?l/
• Rhymes: -a?m?l

Adjective

primal (not comparable)

1. Being the first in time or in history.

2. Of greatest importance; primary.
3. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.

Synonyms

• (first in time or history): aboriginal, primaeval/primeval, primordial
• (of greatest importance): primary

Derived terms

• primal therapist
• primal therapy
• primality
• primally

Translations

Noun

primal (plural primals)

1. A primal cut (of meat).

Verb

primal (third-person singular simple present primals, present participle primaling or primalling, simple past and past participle primaled or primalled)

1. (intransitive) To take part in primal therapy.
   • 1979, The Journal of Orgonomy (volume 13, issue 1, page 108)

     One of my patients told me of an acquaintance who primaled in the shopping center. Janov described a patient who primaled on the tennis court. Apparently, once initiated, patients primal in any place at any time for the rest of their lives.

   • 1982, Lawrence Edwin Abt, Irving R. Stuart, The Newer Therapies: A Sourcebook (page 369)

     Primaling on the infant level seems so genuinely babyish that the unsophisticated observer may mistake it for psychotic behavior.

References

• Primal cut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• imparl