prima

From Italian prima, from Latin prīma.

• IPA^(key): /pɹiːmə/
• Rhymes: -iːmə

prima (not comparable)

1. most important

• Pamir, Priam

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾima/, [ˈpɾi.ma]

prima f (plural primes)

1. cousin, female equivalent of primu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɾi.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɾi.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima

prima f (plural primes)

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

prima

1. feminine singular of prim

• “prima” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “prima”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “prima” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “prima” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɪma]

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prima (indeclinable)

1. (informal) nice, great

prima

1. nice

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

• (informal, slang) priem

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprimaː/

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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.

prima (not comparable)

1. good, fine

   Ik vind het helemaal prima.

   That's completely fine with me.

prima

1. feminine singular of prim

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prima

1. third-person singular past historic of primer

• parmi
• Priam

prima f (plural primas)

1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)

   Synonym: curmá

• primo

prima f (plural primas)

1. bonus

prima

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

From Italian prima.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʁiːma]

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prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)

1. (colloquial) great, super

   Synonyms: toll, klasse, schnieke

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

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

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

prima

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

• “prima” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• 1ª (abbreviation)

See primo.

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

prima f

1. feminine singular of primo

prima

1. before

   Antonym: dopo

   Pensa prima di parlare. ― Think before you speak.

2. once, formerly
3. beforehand, in advance
4. earlier, sooner

prima f (plural prime)

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

• di prima
• il prima possibile
• prima del tempo
• prima di tutto
• primadonna
• prima o poi
• primatista
• primato
• quanto prima

• Norwegian Bokmål: prima

From Portuguese prima.

prima

1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

prima

1. feminine singular of prim

prīma

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

prīmā

1. ablative feminine singular of prīmus

   prīmā lūce ― at first light, at daybreak

• 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)
    

From Latin prīma.

• (Old Lombard) IPA^(key): [ˈpɾima]

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

• Lombard: primma

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpriːma/

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• Rhymes: -iːma
• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima

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

• rimpa

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʁi.mɒ], [ˈpri.mɒ]

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prima f (plural primas)

1. spring (seasons)

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

From Portuguese prima and Spanish prima and Kabuverdianu prima.

prima

1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

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

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

• → Hunsrik: Prim

prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)

1. (of birds of prey) female

   Açor-prima.

   Female goshawk.

• obra prima
• matéria-prima
• primário
• primeiro
• primo

prima

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

Borrowed from French primer.

• IPA^(key): /priˈma/

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.ma/

prima

1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of prim

• prima in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Borrowed from Italian prima.

prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)

1. (music) unison

• “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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)

1. third-person singular present of primati

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾima/ [ˈpɾi.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: pri‧ma

Inherited from Latin prīma.

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

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

From primo.

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.

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prima f

1. feminine singular of primo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

• “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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

prima (not inflected)

1. excellent; top quality

• impar