adverb
prīmō
prīmō (superlative, positive prae, comparative prius, adjective prīmus)
Classical[ˈpriː.moː]Ecclesiastical[ˈpriː.mo]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- superlativefirst; firstly; first of all; first up; at first; before all else
In the readers how our graded readers gloss it
at first
prīmō — in Seneca, ch. XVI
prīmō, adv., v. primus
I. fin. A.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
prīmō adv.
primus, in the order of time, at first, at the beginning, first, in the first place : primo attente auditur eius oratio: Themistocles solus primo profectus est, N.: primo . . . deinde . . . tum . . . tum: dissuadente primo Vercingetorige, post concedente, Cs.: primo . . . postea . . . postremo, L.: primo negitare, denique saepius fatigatus, etc., S.: primo . . . iterum, L.: primo . . . Secundo, Ph.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Latinprīmō
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-der. Proto-Italic *pri Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-(t)m̥mos Proto-Indo-European *-is(t)m̥mós Proto-Italic *-isəmos Proto-Italic *prīzmos Latin prīmus Proto-Indo-European *-éad Proto-Italic *-ōd Latin -ō Latin prīmō From prīmus (“first”) + -ō.