prīmōris
Meaning
- one terminationfirst; foremost; closest to the front
- one terminationearliest
- one terminationchief; principal
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Primores · Principes · Proceres · Optimates
Primores and principes denote the most eminent persons in a state, as a class of the most influential and respectable citizens, in opp. to insignificant persons; primores, so far as they are so by their connections, birth, power, and credit; principes, so far as they have raised themselves by their intellect, commanding talent, and activity to take the lead in debates, to be at the head of parties, to be the first men even among the primores, and in the whole state; whereas proceres, as far as they are so from their natural position, as the nobility, in opp. to the commonalty; optimates, as a political class, as the aristocracy, in opp. to the democracy. Accius apud Non. Primores procerum provocaret nomine. (v. 346.)
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | prīmor | prīmor | — |
| genitive | prīmōris | prīmōris | — |
| dative | prīmōrī | prīmōrī | — |
| accusative | prīmōrem | prīmōrem | — |
| ablative | prīmōrī prīmōre | prīmōrī prīmōre | — |
| vocative | prīmor | prīmor | — |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- principes or primores
- the aristocracy (as a leading class in government).
- primis (ut dicitur) or primoribus labris gustare or attingere litteras
- to have a superficial knowledge, a smattering of literature, of the sciences.
imbres, Varr. R. R. 2, 2: dentes, the front teeth, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70: in primore pueritiā, in earliest childhood, Gell. 10, 19, 3: anni, first, earliest, Sil. 1, 511: primori Marte, in the first part or beginning of the war, id. 11, 143: primore aspectu, at first sight, Gell. 2, 7, 6.—syn. primus): sumere aliquid digitulis primoribus, with the tips of one's fingers, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 24: versabatur mihi (nomen) in labris primoribus, is at my tongue's end, id. Trin. 4, 2, 65: aliquid primoribus labris attingere, to touch slightly, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12, 28; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 428, 3: surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos, Cato, R. R. 40, 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 27: eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus, id. ib. 427, 32: nasi primoris acumen, Lucr. 6, 1193: (pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea, Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 112; 10, 33, 51, § 99: cauda late fusa primori parte, id. 8, 54, 80, § 216: vestibulum esse partem domus primorem, Gell. 16, 5, 2: in primore libro, at the beginning of the book, Gell. 1, 18, 3: usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos, as far as the forepart of the hands, id. 7, 12: primori in acie versari, Tac. H. 3, 21.—Argivorum viri, Cat. 68, 87: feminae, Tac. A. 2, 29: venti, chief, cardinal, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m. dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est, Curt. 4, 6, 17.—Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49: odio alienae honestatis ereptus primoribus ager, Liv. 1, 47, 11: primores populi arripuit, Hor. S. 2, 1, 69: civitatum primores atque optimates, Col. 12, 3, 10: primores, ac duces, Juv. 15, 40: ex primoribus, Tac. A. 13, 30; 4, 33; Vulg. 2 Macc. 8, 9.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From prīmus (“first”).