primary
English
/ˈpɹaɪməɹi/, /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/, /ˈpɹaɪməɹi/, /ˈpɹɒeməɹi/
adj
Definitions
- first or earliest in a group or series.
- main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (one of the first, chief, principal, of the first, excellent).
Origin
Latin
prīmārius
Gloss
one of the first, chief, principal, of the first, excellent
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- circumprimary English
- clown car English
- clown-car primary English
- coprimary English
- megaprimary English
- nonprimary English
- planet English
- postprimary English
- pre-primary English
- preprimary English
- primarily English
- primariness English
- primary planet English
- superprimary English
- primarius Latin
- prīmārius Latin
- Primarius German
- primär German
- primaio Italian
- primario Italian
- primair Dutch, Flemish
- primaire French
- primario Spanish, Castilian
- primera Spanish, Castilian
- primero Spanish, Castilian
- primær Norwegian Bokmål
- primário Portuguese
- prymarny Polish
- primær Norwegian Nynorsk
- primær Danish
- premier Old French
- primer Catalan, Valencian
- primar Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- primaithe Norman
- #Adjective 2, premier Middle French
- primeiro Old Portuguese
- primièr Occitan
- firamare Hausa
- purmeiro Mirandese