prima

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

Etymology

Derived from Italian prima, derived from Latin prīma.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: prē′mə
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹiː.mə/
  • Rhymes: -iːmə
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

Adjective

prima (not comparable)

  1. Most important.

Translations

Noun

prima (plural primas)

  1. Short for prima ballerina.

Anagrams

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾima/ [ˈpɾi.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ima
  • Syllabification: pri‧ma

Noun

prima f (plural primes)

  1. cousin, female equivalent of primu

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈpɾi.mə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpɾi.ma]
  • Audio (Barcelona):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ima
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

Noun

prima f (plural primes)

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

Adjective

prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

Further reading

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish prima (“female cousin”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

Noun

prima

  1. female cousin
    Coordinate term: primo

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈprɪma]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

Adjective

prima (indeclinable)

  1. (informal) nice, great

Interjection

prima

  1. nice

Further reading

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed 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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.maː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

Adjective

prima (not comparable, no superlative)

  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.

Adverb

prima (not comparable, no superlative)

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

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree
Esperanto primo
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -ader.
▲
Latin -a
Italian -ader.
▲
Latin -a
Old Spanish -a
Spanish -ader.
Esperanto -a
Esperanto prima

    From primo + -a.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈprima/
    • Rhymes: -ima
    • Syllabification: pri‧ma

    Adjective

    prima (accusative singular priman, plural primaj, accusative plural primajn)(mathematics)

    2. prime (element)
      prima faktoro ― prime factor
    4. prime (ideal)
      La idealo de ĉiuj obloj de kvar ne estas prima, ĉar ses oble dek apartenas al ĝi, sed nek ses, nek dek estas obloj de kvar. ― The ideal of all multiples of four is not prime, because six times ten belongs to it, but neither six, nor ten are multiples of four.
    6. relatively prime (elements)
      Dek kaj dudek unu ne estas primaj, sed ili estas primaj inter si. ― Ten and twenty-one are not prime, but they are prime to each other.

    See also

    • interprimuma

    References

    Franco-Provençal

    Adjective

    prima

    1. feminine singular of prim

    French

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    prima

    1. third-person singular past historic of primer

    Anagrams

    Galician

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    prima f (plural primas)

    1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
      Synonym: curmá

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    prima f (plural primas)

    1. bonus

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    prima

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

    German

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Italian prima.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)

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

    Further reading

    • “prima” in Duden online
    • “prima”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)

    Indonesian

    Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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

    Adjective

    prima (comparative lebih prima, superlative paling prima)

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

    Further reading

    Italian

    Alternative forms

    • 1ª (abbreviation)

    Etymology

    See primo.

    Pronunciation

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

    Adjective

    prima f

    1. feminine singular of primo

    Adverb

    prima

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

    Noun

    prima f (plural prime)

    1. the first
    2. an opening night; a premier
    3. the first year at school

    Descendants

    • Dutch: prima
    • German: prima
    • Norwegian Bokmål: prima

    Kabuverdianu

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Old Galician-Portuguese prima
    Portuguese primader.
    Kabuverdianu prima

      Derived from Portuguese prima.

      Noun

      prima

      1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

      Ladin

      Adjective

      prima

      1. feminine singular of prim

      Ladino

      Pronunciation

      • Audio (Paris):(file)

      Adjective

      prima (Hebrew spelling פרימה)[1]

      1. feminine singular of primo
        • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎[2], page 433:
          Fue la prima i únika vez ke vidi en Israel una piesa dada a livel enternasional.
          It was the first and only time that I saw a play in Israel given on [an] international level.

      Noun

      prima f (Hebrew spelling פרימה)

      1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
        • 1996, Sara Benveniste Benrey, edited by Yossi Benbenisty, Espertando el djudeo espanyol: poemas realidas i philosophia, kantes, sketches, piesas de teatro‎[3], Yossi Benbenisty, page 291:
          Bella — Oh Dio! El es mi padre!
          Rivka — I el marido de mi prima. Ya me alegri muncho, es un buen ombre i mos keremos muncho bien, por siguro ke ya te va mirar komo un ijo suyo.
          Bella — Oh God! He’s my father!
          Rivka — And my cousin’s husband. Now he really pleased me; he is a good man and we love each other very much, definitely now that he is going to see you like his child.

      Verb

      prima (Hebrew spelling פרימה)

      1. first-person singular present subjunctive of premir
      2. third-person singular present subjunctive of premir
      3. third-person singular present indicative of primar
      4. second-person singular imperative of primar

      References

      1. ^ “prima”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

      Latin

      Numeral

      prīma

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

      Numeral

      prīmā

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

      References

      • "prima", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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[4], 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)

      Lombard

      Etymology

      Inherited from Latin prīma.

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

      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

      Descendants

      • Lombard: primma

      Norwegian Bokmål

      Etymology

      Derived 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”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈpriːma/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -iːma
      • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

      Adverb

      prima

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

      Anagrams

      • rimpa

      Occitan

      Etymology

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

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [ˈpʁi.mɒ], [ˈpri.mɒ]
      • Audio (Béarn):(file)

      Noun

      prima f (plural primas)

      1. spring (seasons)

      See also

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

      Old Galician-Portuguese

      Adjective

      prima

      1. feminine singular of primo

      Noun

      prima f

      1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
      2. (Christianity) First canonical hour.

      References

      Old Spanish

      Adjective

      prima

      1. feminine singular of primo

      Noun

      prima

      1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
      2. (Christianity) First canonical hour.

      References

      • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “prima”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 409

      Papiamentu

      Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Old Galician-Portuguese prima
      Portuguese primader.
      Proto-Indo-European *per-
      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 *prīsmos
      Latin prīma
      Spanish primader.
      ▲
      Portuguese primader.
      Kabuverdianu primader.
      Papiamentu prima

        Derived from Portuguese prima, Spanish prima, and Kabuverdianu prima.

        Noun

        prima

        1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

        Piedmontese

        Etymology

        From Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”).

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): [ˈpri.mɐ]

        Noun

        prima f

        1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

        References

        • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 311: “la primavera” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

        Portuguese

        Etymology 1

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

          Pronunciation

          • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɾĩ.mɐ/

          Noun

          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
          Descendants

          Adjective

          prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)

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

          Etymology 2

          Verb

          prima

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

          Further reading

          Romanian

          Etymology 1

            Borrowed from French primer.

            Pronunciation

            • IPA(key): /priˈma/

            Verb

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

            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.
            Conjugation
                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

            Etymology 2

            Pronunciation

            • IPA(key): /ˈpri.ma/

            Adjective

            prima

            1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of prim

            Further reading

            Serbo-Croatian

            Etymology 1

            Borrowed from Italian prima.

            Noun

            prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)

            1. (music) unison

            Further reading

            • “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
            • “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

            Etymology 2

            See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

            Verb

            prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)

            1. third-person singular present of primati

            Spanish

            Pronunciation

            • IPA(key): /ˈpɾima/ [ˈpɾi.ma]
            • Audio (Colombia):(file)
            • Rhymes: -ima
            • Syllabification: pri‧ma

            Etymology 1

            Etymology tree
            Proto-Indo-European *per-
            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 *prīsmos
            Latin prīma
            Spanish prima

              Inherited from Latin prīma.

              Noun

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

              1. female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
              Hyponyms

              Etymology 2

              From primo.

              Noun

              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[5], 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)
              Derived terms

              Adjective

              prima f

              1. feminine singular of primo

              Etymology 3

                See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

                Verb

                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

                Further reading

                Swedish

                Etymology

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

                Adjective

                prima (not inflected)

                1. excellent; top quality

                Anagrams

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