adverb
cumprīmīs
cumprīmīs
Meaning
- first, first of all, before all others, better than all others
eradicare est certum cumprimis patrem, post id locorum matrem
I’m resolved to root out my father first and then my motherc. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 6601719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I
The first [statue] displays Venus... Received into Heaven, she presided over all things related to Whoring, which she was thought to understand before all others... - with the foremost, especially, particularly
Sed cumprimis mirandum est, quod ea, quae minime videri volunt nescire
But what is particularly remarkable, the very things that they least want to seem ignorant of are the ones they refuse to learnc. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, De deo Socratis 22
cumprīmis, v. 1. cum, II. D.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Old Latincom
- Latincumprīmīs
Latin primis Latin cumprimis From cum (“at”) + primis (“first”).