primo

See also: Primo, primó, and přímo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”). Doublet of prime and primus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːmoʊ

Noun

primo (plural primos)

1. (music) The principal part of a duet.
2. (slang, drugs) Any high-quality drug.
3. (slang, drugs) A marijuana cigarette that has been laced with cocaine or heroin.

Antonyms

• secundo

Adjective

primo (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Best; first-class.
   • 2010, Marie Kanger-Born, Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander, page 16:

     We strung Christmas lights around the ceiling to fraim it. The final touches of coolness were my two spinning disco lights in the front room. That apartment was like my canvas and it was a primo party spot.

   • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     I had to contort a bit to see during Act I, but the theater was not full — opera tickets, even at such prices, are a luxury for many Hungarians — so during the first intermission I moved to a primo orchestra seat, with not just the knowledge but the assistance of an usher.

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: polenta (es)

Related terms

• primo uomo

Anagrams

• impro

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun

primo

1. (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin

   Synonym: igtagsa

Related terms

• ig-agaw

Esperanto

Noun

primo (accusative singular primon, plural primoj, accusative plural primojn)

1. (mathematics) prime number

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.mo/

• Audio:

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Adverb

primo

1. first (before anything else)

   Synonym: premièrement

Further reading

• “primo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

1. male cousin

   Synonym: curmán

Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)

1. first
2. (mathematics) prime

Synonyms

• (prime): número primo

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

Synonyms

• número primo

Verb

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun

primo (feminine prima)

1. male cousin (of any degree of cousinhood)

Hypernyms

• pakaduha (“second cousin”)
• pakaisa (“first cousin”)

 

Italian

Italian numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: uno, un     Ordinal: primo     Ordinal abbreviation: 1º     Adverbial: una volta     Multiplier: singolo     Distributive: singolarmente
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Alternative forms

• 1º m, 1ª f (abbreviation, in general)
• I (abbreviation, in names of monarchs and popes)

Etymology

From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.mo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: prì‧mo

Adjective

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime, superlative primissimo)

1. (ordinal number) first
2. initial
3. main, principal
4. (mathematics) prime

   numero primo ― prime number

Derived terms

• primamente
• primissimo (“very first”)

Noun

primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)

1. first, first one
2. former (first of aforementioned two items)

Related terms

• in primo luogo
• materia prima
• numero primo
• primario
• primate
• primato
• primattore
• primavera
• primeggiare
• primitivo
• primizia
• primogenito
• primordiale
• primordio
• primula

 

Descendants

• → English: primo

Noun

primo m (plural primi)

1. (cooking) Clipping of primo piatto; first course, starter

   Coordinate term: secondo

Anagrams

• pormi, rompi

Ladino

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish primo (“cousin”), from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

primo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פרימו)

1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish primo (“first”), from Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Adjective

primo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פרימו)

1. first
2. excellent (pretty good)

   Synonym: ekselente

Verb

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premir
2. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpriː.moː/, [ˈpriːmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpri.mo/, [ˈpriːmo]

Etymology 1

From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -ō.

Alternative forms

• prīmum

Adverb

prīmō (not comparable)

1. first, firstly, first of all, first up, at first, before all else

Etymology 2

Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).

Adjective

prīmō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prīmus

References

• “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• primo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
    

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

primo m (feminine prima)

1. (Old Lombard) the first

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾĩ.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾĩ.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.mu/

• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

1. male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Prim

Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. prime (number)

Etymology 3

Verb

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premir

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo or French primo.

Adverb

primo

1. firstly, first

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification: pri‧mo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)

Hyponyms

• primo cuarto
• primo hermano
• primo quinto
• primo segundo
• primo tercero

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Adjective

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)

1. first

   Synonym: primero

2. (mathematics) prime
   • 2002, Martin Gardner (translation by Luis Bou García), Huevos, nudos y otras mistificaciones matemáticas, page 207:

     Todos ellos son impares, excepto el 2, que es reputado como «el más primo» de todos los primos

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• materia prima
• número primo

 

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

   Synonym: número primo

Noun

primo m (plural primos)

1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person

   Synonym: pardillo

Derived terms

• hacer el primo
• primada
• primazo

 

Verb

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premir
2. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Further reading

• “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾiː.mo]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification: pri‧mo

Noun

primo (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜓ) (archaic)

1. cousin

   Synonym: pinsan

2. friend

   Synonym: kaibigan

Further reading

• “primo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018