LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

prīmitus

prīmitus (not comparable)

Meaning

  1. not comparableoriginally, at first, from the first, from/at first flush
    Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, De civitate Dei 15.8

prīmĭtus, adv. id.,
I. at first, originally, for the first time (ante- and post-class. and poet.): primitu', Lucil. ap. Non. 154, 29: primitus cum exit vitis, Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 2: primitus oritur herba, id. ib. 2, 2, 14; Verg. Cir. 490; Cat. 19, 10: primitus enim ex libamentis deos placabant, Val. Max. 2, 5, 5: proinde atque si primitus Latine fictum esset, Gell. 1, 18, 1; Amm. 14, 6, 12.

Origins

  1. Proto-Italic*prīzmos
  2. Latinprīmitus

Latin itus Latin prīmitus From prīmus (“first”) + itus.

Quick answers

What does prīmitus mean in Latin?
prīmitus, a adverb, means “originally, at first, from the first, from/at first flush”.
Where does prīmitus come from?
Proto-Italic *prīzmos → Latin prīmitus.