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primordial
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)
- first, earliest or original
- the primordial facts of our intelligent nature
- (biology) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium
- a primordial leaf; a primordial cell
- primeval
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
primordial (plural primordials)
- 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)
- primordial, primitive, original
- 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)
- 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)
- primordial (first, earliest or original)
- Synonym: primeiro
- 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
- 1982, Bernardo Soares, Livro do Desassossego, Vol.II
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)
- primeval
Declension
Related terms
- primordialitate
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin pr?m?rdi?lis (“of the beginning”). Cognate with English primordial.
Adjective
primordial (plural primordiales)
- primordial
- primary, paramount
Related terms
- primordio
Further reading
- “primordial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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primary
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pr?m?rius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from pr?mus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?a?m??i/
- (US) enPR: pr??m?r-?, IPA(key): /?p?a??m??i/ or enPR: pr??m?-r?, IPA(key): /?p?a?m??i/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?p??em??i/, /?p??em?i/
Adjective
primary (comparative more primary, superlative most primary)
- first or earliest in a group or series.
- 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
- the church of Christ, in its primary institution
- , Book II, Chapter VIII
- These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.
- 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
- main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- first
- primus inter pares
Noun
primary (plural primaries)
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- The first year of grade school.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- A primary school.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
- Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
- 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
- By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
- 2003, Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- (medicine) Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
Translations
References
- primary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
primary (third-person singular simple present primaries, present participle primarying, simple past and past participle primaried)
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
Further reading
- primary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- primary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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