# primo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”). Doublet of prime and primus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːmoʊ

### Noun

primo (plural primos)
* (music) The principal part of a duet.
* (slang, drugs) Any high-quality drug.
* (slang, drugs) A marijuana cigarette that has been laced with cocaine or heroin.

#### Antonyms

* secundo

### Adjective

primo (not comparable)
* (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.
** 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎:I had to contort a bit to see during Act I, but the theater was not full — opera tickets, even at such prices, are a luxury for many Hungarians — so during the first intermission I moved to a primo orchestra seat, with not just the knowledge but the assistance of an usher.

#### Translations
### Related terms

* primo uomo

### Anagrams

* impro

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pri‧mo

### Noun

primo
* (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin
    Synonym: igtagsa

#### Related terms

* ig-agaw

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈprimo]
* Rhymes: -imo
* Hyphenation: pri‧mo

### Noun

primo (accusative singular primon, plural primoj, accusative plural primojn)
* (mathematics) prime number

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁi.mo/
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

primo
* first (before anything else)
    Synonym: premièrement

### Further reading

* “primo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

#### Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
* male cousin
    Synonym: curmán

### Etymology 2

From Latin prīmus.

#### Adjective

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)
* first
* (mathematics) prime

##### Synonyms

* (prime): número primo

#### Noun

primo m (plural primos)
* (mathematics) prime number

##### Synonyms

* número primo

#### Verb

primo
* first-person singular present indicative of primar

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
* Hyphenation: pri‧mo

### Noun

primo (feminine prima)
* male cousin (of any degree of cousinhood)

#### Hypernyms

* pakaduha (“second cousin”)
* pakaisa (“first cousin”)

## Italian
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpri.mo/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -imo
* Hyphenation: prì‧mo

### Adjective

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime, superlative primissimo)
* (ordinal number) first
* initial
* main, principal
* (mathematics) prime
    numero primo ― prime number

#### Derived terms

* primamente
* primissimo (“very first”)

### Noun

primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)
* first, first one
* former (first of aforementioned two items)

#### Related terms

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

#### Descendants

* → English: primo

### Noun

primo m (plural primi)
* (cooking) Clipping of primo piatto; first course, starter
    Coordinate term: secondo

### Anagrams

* pormi, rompi

## Ladino
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish primo (“cousin”), from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

#### Noun

primo m (Hebrew spelling פרימו)
* cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
** 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎, numbers 11–34, page 407:Nacido en 1877, nieto del conde Henri d'Avigdor, amigo intimo de Napoleon III, Sir Osmond ajusto a su nombre, aquel de Goldsmid, a la muerte de su primo Sir Julien Goldsmid, donde el era el heredador.Born in 1877, grandson to Henri d’Avigdor, close friend of Napoleon III, Sir Osmond added Goldsmid to his name on the death of his cousin Sir Julien Goldsmid, where he was the heir.

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish primo (“first”), from Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

#### Adjective

primo (Hebrew spelling פרימו)
* first
** 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎, numbers 11–34, page 247:El primo districto administrativo judio sera establecido cercamente en Natania onde seran transferados todos los servicios publicos que fin ahora se topavan en Tolcarim.The first administrative Jewish district shall soon be established in Natania, where all of the public services shall be transferred that up until now were located in Tolcarim.
* excellent (pretty good)
    Synonym: ekselente

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

primo
* first-person singular present indicative of premir
* first-person singular present indicative of primar

### References

* 1 2 “primo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpriː.moː/, [ˈpriːmoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpri.mo/, [ˈpriːmo]

### Etymology 1

From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -ō.

#### Alternative forms

* prīmum

#### Adverb

prīmō (not comparable)
* first, firstly, first of all, first up, at first, before all else

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).

#### Adjective

prīmō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prīmus

### References

* “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

## Lombard
### Etymology

From Latin prīmus.

### Adjective

primo m (feminine prima)
* (Old Lombard) the first

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Adjective

primo m (feminine prima)
* (ordinal number) first (first up)
    Synonym: primeiro

### Noun

primo m
* cousin

#### Descendants

* Galician: primo
* Portuguese: primo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “primo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Adjective

primo m (feminine prima)
* (ordinal number) first (first up)
    Synonym: primero
* prime (excellent)
* extreme (excessive)

### Noun

primo m (plural primos)
* cousin

#### Descendants

* Ladino: primo, פרימו
* Spanish: primo

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾĩ.mu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾĩ.mu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾi.mo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɾi.mu/
* Hyphenation: pri‧mo

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

#### Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
* male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)

##### Descendants

* → Hunsrik: Prim

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

primo m (plural primos)
* prime (number)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

primo
* first-person singular present indicative of premir

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian primo or French primo.

### Adverb

primo
* firstly, first

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -imo
* Syllabification: pri‧mo

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

#### Noun

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)
* cousin (of male or unspecified gender)

##### Hyponyms

* primo cuarto
* primo hermano
* primo quinto
* primo segundo
* primo tercero

### Etymology 2

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

#### Adjective

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)
* first
    Synonym: primero
* (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 quotation)

##### Derived terms

* materia prima
* número primo

#### Noun

primo m (plural primos)
* (mathematics) prime number
    Synonym: número primo

#### Noun

primo m (plural primos)
* (colloquial) sucker, gullible person
    Synonym: pardillo

##### Derived terms

* hacer el primo
* primada
* primazo

#### Verb

primo
* first-person singular present indicative of premir
* first-person singular present indicative of primar

### Further reading

* “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾiː.mo]
* Rhymes: -imo
* Syllabification: pri‧mo

### Noun

primo (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜓ) (archaic)
* cousin
    Synonym: pinsan
* friend
    Synonym: kaibigan

### Further reading

* “primo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018