# prima
## English
### Etymology

Derived from Italian prima, from Latin prīma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɹiːmə/
* Rhymes: -iːmə

### Adjective

prima (not comparable)
* most important

#### Related terms

* alla prima
* prima ballerina
* prima donna
* prima faciality
* prima facie
* prima materia

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Pamir, Priam

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɾima/ [ˈpɾi.ma]

### Noun

prima f (plural primes)
* cousin, female equivalent of primu

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

prima f (plural primes)
* premium (a bonus paid in addition to normal payments)

### Adjective

prima
* feminine singular of prim

### Further reading

* “prima” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “prima”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈprɪma]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

prima (indeclinable)
* (informal) nice, great

### Interjection

prima
* nice

#### Related terms

* primární
* primář
* primářka
* primátor
* primátorka

### Further reading

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

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* (informal, slang) priem

### 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: /ˈprimaː/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

prima (not comparable)
* excellent
    Dat is een prima wijntje.That's an excellent wine.
* (informal) OK, satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional
    De wijn was prima, hoor.The wine was all right.

### Adverb

prima (not comparable)
* good, fine
    Ik vind het helemaal prima.That's completely fine with me.

## Franco-Provençal
### Adjective

prima
* feminine singular of prim

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

prima
* third-person singular past historic of primer

### Anagrams

* parmi
* Priam

## Galician
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

prima f (plural primas)
* female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
    Synonym: curmá

##### Related terms

* primo

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

prima f (plural primas)
* bonus

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

prima
* inflection of primar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian prima.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpʁiːma]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)
* (colloquial) great, super
    Synonyms: toll, klasse, schnieke

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpri.ma/
* Rhymes: -ma
* Hyphenation: pri‧ma

### Adjective

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

### Further reading

* “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.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* 1ª (abbreviation)

### Etymology

See primo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpri.ma/
* Rhymes: -ima
* Hyphenation: prì‧ma

### Adjective

prima f
* feminine singular of primo

### Adverb

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

### Noun

prima f (plural prime)
* the first
* an opening night; a premier
* the first year at school

#### Related terms

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

#### Descendants

* Norwegian Bokmål: prima

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

Derived from Portuguese prima.

### Noun

prima
* cousin (daughter of the uncle)

## Ladin
### Adjective

prima
* feminine singular of prim

## Ladino
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Adjective

prima (Hebrew spelling פרימה)
* feminine singular of primo
** 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎, 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)
* 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, 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)
* first-person singular present subjunctive of premir
* third-person singular present subjunctive of premir
* third-person singular present indicative of primar
* second-person singular imperative of primar

### References

* ↑ “prima”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Numeral

prīma
* inflection of prīmus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Numeral

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

### References

* "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, 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

* (Old Lombard) IPA: [ˈpɾima]

### Adjective

prima f (masculine primo)
* (Old Lombard) the first
** 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:La prima sì è negra e è de grand paguraThe 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: /ˈpriːma/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iːma
* Hyphenation: pri‧ma

### Adverb

prima
* 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: [ˈpʁi.mɒ], [ˈpri.mɒ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

prima f (plural primas)
* spring (seasons)

### See also

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

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Adjective

prima
* feminine singular of primo

### Noun

prima
* female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
* (Christianity) First canonical hour.

### References

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

## Old Spanish
### Adjective

prima
* feminine singular of primo

### Noun

prima
* female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
* (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

Derived from Portuguese prima and Spanish prima and Kabuverdianu prima.

### Noun

prima
* cousin (daughter of the uncle)

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpri.mɐ]

### Noun

prima f
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### 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: /ˈpɾĩ.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾĩ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɾi.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɾi.mɐ/

#### Noun

prima f (plural primas)
* female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
* (music) an instrument’s thinnest string
* (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) the first canonical hour

##### Descendants

* → Hunsrik: Prim

#### Adjective

prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)
* (of birds of prey) female
    Açor-prima.Female goshawk.

##### Related terms

* obra prima
* matéria-prima
* primário
* primeiro
* primo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

prima
* inflection of premir:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French primer.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /priˈma/

#### Verb

a prima (third-person singular present primează, past participle primat) 1st conjugation
* 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
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpri.ma/

#### Adjective

prima
* definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of prim

### Further reading

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian prima.

#### Noun

prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)
* (music) unison

#### Further reading

* “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)
* third-person singular present of primati

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin prīma.

#### Noun

prima f (plural primas, masculine primo, masculine plural primos)
* female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)

##### Hyponyms

* prima cuarta
* prima hermana
* prima quinta
* prima segunda
* prima tercera

### Etymology 2

From primo.

#### Noun

prima f (plural primas)
* bonus
    Synonyms: bonificación, bono, premio
* premium (amount to be paid for an insurance policy)
* (music) the highest-pitched string on a string instrument
** 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael‎, 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

* cazaprimas
* prima de riesgo

#### Adjective

prima f
* feminine singular of primo

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

prima
* inflection of premir:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative
* inflection of primar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

prima (not inflected)
* excellent; top quality

### Anagrams

* impar