different between primordial vs innate

English

Etymology

From the Latin pr?m?rdi?lis (“of the beginning”). Confer primordium and -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?a??m??.di.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?a??m??.di.?l/

Adjective

primordial (not comparable)

1. first, earliest or original

   • the primordial facts of our intelligent nature

2. (biology) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium

   a primordial leaf; a primordial cell

3. primeval

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

primordial (plural primordials)

1. A first principle or element.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?m?rdi?lis (“of the beginning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i.m??.djal/

Adjective

primordial (feminine singular primordiale, masculine plural primordiaux, feminine plural primordiales)

1. primordial, primitive, original
2. vital, essential, paramount, of paramount importance

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

primordial (not comparable)

1. primordial

Declension

Further reading

• “primordial” in Duden online

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin pr?m?rdi?lis (“of the beginning”).

Adjective

primordial m or f (plural primordiais, comparable)

1. primordial (first, earliest or original)

   Synonym: primeiro

2. primary, main, paramount
   • 1982, Bernardo Soares, Livro do Desassossego, Vol.II

     Em mim o que há de primordial é o hábito e o jeito de sonhar.

   Synonyms: capital, essencial, importante

Derived terms

• primordialmente

Related terms

• primórdio

Further reading

• “primordial” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French primordial

Adjective

primordial m or n (feminine singular primordial?, masculine plural primordiali, feminine and neuter plural primordiale)

1. primeval

Declension

Related terms

• primordialitate

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pr?m?rdi?lis (“of the beginning”). Cognate with English primordial.

Adjective

primordial (plural primordiales)

1. primordial
2. primary, paramount

Related terms

• primordio

Further reading

• “primordial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inn?tus (“inborn”), perfect active participle of inn?scor (“be born in, grow up in”), from in (“in, at on”) + n?scor (“be born”); see natal, native.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ne?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Adjective

innate (not comparable)

1. Inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
2. (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience.
3. Instinctive; coming from instinct.
   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 3

     As if she held the clue to something secret in his breast, of the nature of which he was hardly informed himself. As if she had an innate knowledge of one jarring and discordant string within him, and her very breath could sound it.

4. (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.

Usage notes

• Nouns often used with "innate": knowledge, idea, immunity, etc.

Synonyms

• (existing or having existed since birth): See also Thesaurus:innate

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• a priori
• intuitive.

Verb

innate (third-person singular simple present innates, present participle innating, simple past and past participle innated)

1. (obsolete) To cause to exist; to call into being.

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• annite, ante in, nanite, tannie

Italian

Adjective

innate f pl

1. feminine plural of innato

Latin

Participle

inn?te

1. vocative masculine singular of inn?tus