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prima

See also: Prima, primá, príma, primă, and přímá

English

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From Italian prima, from Latin prīma.

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prima (not comparable)

  1. most important
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Asturian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾima/, [ˈpɾi.ma]

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prima f (plural primes)

  1. cousin, female equivalent of primu

Catalan

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prima f (plural primes)

  1. premium (a bonus paid in addition to normal payments)

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prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

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Czech

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  • IPA(key): [ˈprɪma]
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prima (indeclinable)

  1. (informal) nice, great

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prima

  1. nice
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  • “prima”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “prima”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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From Italian prima (“first, best”), which together with secunda and tertia denoted the three classes of wares. The latter two fell out of use, but prima stayed, although with a changed meaning.

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prima (not comparable)

  1. excellent
    Dat is een prima wijntje.
    That's an excellent wine.
  2. (informal) OK, satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional
    De wijn was prima, hoor.
    The wine was all right.

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prima (not comparable)

  1. good, fine
    Ik vind het helemaal prima.
    That's completely fine with me.

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prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

French

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prima

  1. third-person singular past historic of primer

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Galician

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prima f (plural primas)

  1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
    Synonym: curmá
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prima f (plural primas)

  1. bonus

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prima

  1. inflection of primar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

German

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From Italian prima.

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prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) great, super
    Synonyms: toll, klasse, schnieke

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  • “prima” in Duden online
  • “prima” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

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Borrowed from Dutch prima and priem, ultimately from Latin primus.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ma
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

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prima

  1. prime:
    1. first
    2. (mathematics) having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
  2. prima

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Italian

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See primo.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ima
  • Hyphenation: prì‧ma

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prima f

  1. feminine singular of primo

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prima

  1. before
    Antonym: dopo
    Pensa prima di parlare. ― Think before you speak.
  2. once, formerly
  3. beforehand, in advance
  4. earlier, sooner

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prima f (plural prime)

  1. the first
  2. an opening night; a premier
  3. the first year at school
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: prima

Kabuverdianu

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From Portuguese prima.

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prima

  1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

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prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

Latin

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prīma

  1. inflection of prīmus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

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prīmā

  1. ablative feminine singular of prīmus
    prīmā lūce ― at first light, at daybreak

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  • prima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • prima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • at daybreak: prima luce
    • from one's entry into civil life: ab ineunte (prima) aetate (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
    • to teach children the rudiments: pueros elementa (prima) docere
    • premises; consequences: prima (superiora); consequentia (Fin. 4. 19. 54)

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From Latin prīma.

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prima f (masculine primo)

  1. (Old Lombard) the first
    • 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:
      La prima sì è negra e è de grand pagura
      The first is black and instills great fear

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From Italian prima (“before, once, at first, earlier”), feminine singular of primo (“first, initial, main”), from Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos, from Proto-Italic *priisemos (“foremost, first”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before, in front”).

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prima

  1. Only used in a prima vista (“sight-read”)

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Occitan

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Etymology

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Shortened from Old Occitan primavera, from Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”). Cf. the unshortened Gascon form primavèra.

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prima f (plural primas)

  1. spring (seasons)

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Seasons in Occitan · sasons (layout · text) · category
prima (“spring”) estiu (“summer”) auton (“autumn”) ivèrn (“winter”)

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Portuguese prima and Spanish prima and Kabuverdianu prima.

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prima

  1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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    From Old Galician-Portuguese prima, from Latin prīma, feminine of prīmus (“first”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

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    prima f (plural primas)

    1. female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
    2. (music) an instrument’s thinnest string
    3. (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) the first canonical hour
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    prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)

    1. (of birds of prey) female
      Açor-prima.
      Female goshawk.
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    prima

    1. inflection of premir:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

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    Borrowed from French primer.

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    a prima (third-person singular present primează, past participle primat) 1st conj.

    1. to prevail, to take precedent
      • 1991 June, Ion Ciocanu, “Poezia lui Vladimir Cavarnali [Poetry of Vladimir Cavarnali]”, in Limba română [Romanian language], number 2, Chișinău, page 108:
        Cavarnali a cultivat o poezie de atmosferă, profund interiorizată, în care primează stările sufletești ale personajului liric.
        Cavarnali cultivated an atmospheric, profoundly internalised poetry, in which prevail the states of mind of the lyrical character.
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        conjugation of prima (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
    infinitive a prima
    gerund primând
    past participle primat
    number singular plural
    person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
    indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
    present primez primezi primează primăm primați primează
    imperfect primam primai prima primam primați primau
    simple perfect primai primași primă primarăm primarăți primară
    pluperfect primasem primaseși primase primaserăm primaserăți primaseră
    subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
    present să primez să primezi să primeze să primăm să primați să primeze
    imperative — tu — — voi —
    affirmative primează primați
    negative nu prima nu primați

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    prima

    1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of prim

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    Serbo-Croatian

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    Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from Italian prima.

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    prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)

    1. (music) unison

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    • “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
    • “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)

    1. third-person singular present of primati

    Spanish

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    Inherited from Latin prīma.

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

    1. female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
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    Etymology 2

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    From primo.

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    prima f (plural primas)

    1. bonus
      Synonyms: bonificación, bono, premio
    2. premium (amount to be paid for an insurance policy)
    3. (music) the highest-pitched string on a string instrument
      • 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael‎[2], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:
        Oíase como un ruido de alborozo en la enramada, donde un cantor unía las notas de su voz bronca a las de la prima y la bordona, atrayendo al sitio algunas mozas de trenza y pollera corta, y no pocas comadres de edad madura.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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    prima f

    1. feminine singular of primo

    Etymology 3

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    prima

    1. inflection of premir:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative
    2. inflection of primar:
      1. third-person singular present indicative
      2. second-person singular imperative

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    Latin prima, from Latin primus (“first”).

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    prima (not inflected)

    1. excellent; top quality

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