primo

Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/

primo (plural primos)

1. (music) The principal part of a duet.

• secundo

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 frame 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.

• impro

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (consobrinus) primus.

• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

primo

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

• igtagsa

• ig-agaw

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

1. (mathematics) prime number

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.mo/

primo

1. first (before anything else)

• premièrement

• “primo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

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

1. male cousin

• curmán

From Latin prīmus.

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

1. first
2. (mathematics) prime

• (prime): número primo

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

• número primo

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.mo/, [ˈpr̺iː.mo]
• Hyphenation: prì‧mo
• Rhymes: -imo

primo (feminine singular prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime)

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

   numero primo ― prime number

• primissimo (“very first”)

primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)

1. first, first one
2. starter (first course of a meal)
3. former (first of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun)

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

• → English: primo

primo m (plural primi)

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

• Appendix:Italian numbers

• pormi, rompi

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpriː.moː/

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From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -ō.

prīmō (not comparable)

1. first, at first, firstly

• prīmum

Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).

prīmō

1. dative masculine singular of prīmus
2. dative neuter singular of prīmus
3. ablative masculine singular of prīmus
4. ablative neuter singular of prīmus

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
    

From Old Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.mu/

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

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

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.mu/

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

1. prime (number)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾimo/

From Latin (cōnsōbrīnus) prīmus.

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

1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)

The noun primo is like several other Spanish nouns with a human referent. The masculine forms are used when the referent is known to be male, a group of males, a group of mixed or unknown gender, or an individual of unknown or unspecified gender. The feminine forms are used if the referent is known to be female or a group of females.

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

primo (feminine singular 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 quote)

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

   Synonym: número primo

primo m (plural primos)

1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person

   Synonym: pardillo

• hacer el primo
• primada
• primazo

primo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of primar.