different between primus vs primps

English

Etymology

From Latin pr?mus (“[the] first”); related to prior, the comparative form. Partially cognate to foremost, from Proto-Indo-European [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?a?m?s/

Noun

primus (plural primuses)

1. One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
   • 1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury

     my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses

References

primus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• purism

Latin

Etymology

From earlier pr?smos, from Proto-Italic *priisemos, a superlative form of the obsolete preposition *pri/*prei, related to prae (“before”) (see -issimus for the superlative), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh?- (“before”). Compare prior (“earlier, in front”), the corresponding comparative. Cognate of Oscan promom, Umbrian promom ("first").

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pri?.mus/, [?p?i?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pri.mus/, [?p?i?mus]

Adjective

pr?mus (feminine pr?ma, neuter pr?mum, adverb pr?m?); first/second-declension adjective

1. first

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Dalmatian: prein
• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: prim
• Istriot: preîmo
• Italian: primo
  • ? English: primo
• Neapolitan:

  Tarantino: prime

• Old French: prim, prime
  • French: prime
  • ? Middle English: prime
    • English: prime
    • Scots: prime
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: primu
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: prim
  • Occitan: prim
• Old Portuguese: primo
  • Portuguese: primo
• Old Spanish: primo
  • Spanish: primo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: prin
  • Ladin: prim, prum
  • Romansch: emprim, emprem, amprem, prüm
• Sardinian: primmu, primu
• Sicilian: primu
• Venetian: primo
• ? English: primus
• ? Old Irish: prím, prím-
  • Irish: príomh-
  • Manx: preeu-
  • Scottish Gaelic: prìomh-
• ? Brythonic: *pri??
  • Welsh: prif

See also

• prima materia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Primum Mobile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• primum movens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• primum non nocere on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• primus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• primus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• primus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• primus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• primus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• primus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• primus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 488

Romanian

Etymology

From German Primus.

Noun

primus n (plural primusuri)

1. kerosene stove

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?mps

Verb

primps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of primp