primer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Protestantism
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English primer, primere, from Medieval Latin primarius and primarium (“prayer book”) possibly via Anglo-Norman primer (“prayer book”), from prima (“prime the liturgical hour and office”) + -arius and -arium (suffix forming related objects). Its use for schoolbooks derived from the late medieval and early modern use of such prayer books to teach reading.
Inflected forms:
form: primers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell.
pos: noun
examples: Four-year-old Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw would receive the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from her grandfather. Fiona Hackworth would be getting a copy of the Illustrated Primer too, for this had been John Percival Hackworth's crime: He had programmed the matter compiler to place the cockleburs on the outside of Elizabeth's book.
gloss: An introductory text on any subject, particularly basic concepts.
pos: noun
examples: [...] The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, and cutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed.
gloss: An elementary school class; an elementary school student.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
obsolete
Derived words: double great primer
great primer
long primer
primer book
primer cord
primer school
primer-state
two-line great primer
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: abetare
lang: Arabic
word: كِتَاب تَمْهِيدِيّ
roman: kitāb tamhīdiyy
lang: Armenian
word: այբբենարան
roman: aybbenaran
lang: Belarusian
word: буква́р
roman: bukvár
lang: Belarusian
word: а́збука
roman: ázbuka
lang: Belarusian
word: леманта́р
roman: ljemantár
lang: Bulgarian
word: буква́р
roman: bukvár
lang: Bulgarian
word: а́збучник
roman: ázbučnik
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 識字課本 /识字课本
roman: shìzì kèběn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 入門書 /入门书
roman: rùménshū
lang: Czech
word: slabikář
lang: Dutch
word: abecedarium
lang: Esperanto
word: aboco
lang: Estonian
word: aabits
lang: Finnish
word: alkeiskirja
lang: Finnish
word: alkeet
lang: French
word: abc
lang: French
word: abécédaire
lang: German
word: ABC-Buch
lang: German
word: Abecedarium
lang: German
word: Abecedar
lang: Greek
word: αλφαβητάριο
roman: alfavitário
lang: Hungarian
word: bevezető tankönyv
lang: Indonesian
word: bacaan asas
lang: Irish
word: bunleabhar
lang: Italian
word: testo elementare
lang: Italian
word: m
lang: Italian
word: m
lang: Japanese
word: 入門書
roman: nyūmonsho
lang: Japanese
word: 初等読本
roman: shotō dokuhon
lang: Korean
word: 입문서
roman: immunseo
lang: Latin
word: abecedārium
lang: Latvian
word: ābece
lang: Lithuanian
word: abėcėlė
lang: Macedonian
word: буквар
roman: bukvar
lang: Manx
word: bun-lioar
lang: Mongolian
word: үсэглэл
roman: üseglel
lang: Polish
word: elementarz
lang: Portuguese
word: cartilha
lang: Portuguese
word: abecedário
lang: Romanian
word: abecedar
lang: Russian
word: буква́рь
roman: bukvárʹ
lang: Russian
word: а́збука
roman: ázbuka
lang: Russian
word: абецеда́рий
roman: abɛcedárij
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: aabbâs
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бу̀ква̄р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bùkvār
lang: Slovak
word: šlabikár
lang: Slovene
word: abecednik
lang: Spanish
word: abecé
lang: Spanish
word: cartilla
lang: Spanish
word: introducción
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صوپره
roman: supara
lang: Ukrainian
word: буква́р
roman: bukvár
lang: Ukrainian
word: а́збука
roman: ázbuka
lang: Ukrainian
word: абе́тка
roman: abétka
lang: Uzbek
word: alifbe
lang: Vietnamese
word: sách học vấn