primas

primas

See also: Primas, primaš, primás, and prímás

English

Noun

primas

  1. plural of prima

French

Verb

primas

  1. second-person singular past historic of primer

Galician

Etymology 1

Noun

primas f pl

  1. plural of prima

Etymology 2

Verb

primas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of primar

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin primas, prīmus, from Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpri.mas]
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mas

Noun

primas (plural primas-primas)

  1. (Catholicism) primate, a title rarely conferred to or claimed by certain bishops

Alternative forms

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

The stress lies on the final syllable—an exception to the usual Latin stress rule—as a result of the contraction from -ātis.

Etymology 1

    From prīmus + -̄ās.

    Adjective

    prīmās (genitive prīmātis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

    1. one of the first or principal, chief, excellent, noble; alternative form of prīmus (first)
    Declension

    Third-declension one-termination adjective.

    singular plural
    masc./fem. masc./fem.
    nominative prīmās prīmātēs
    genitive prīmātis prīmātium
    dative prīmātī prīmātibus
    accusative prīmātem prīmātīs
    prīmātēs
    ablative prīmātī
    prīmāte
    prīmātibus
    vocative prīmās prīmātēs
    Descendants
    • French: primate

    Noun

    prīmās m (genitive prīmātis); third declension

    1. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) chief bishop, metropolitan, president of a synod; primate
    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    prīmās

    1. accusative feminine plural of prīmus

    References

    • primas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • "primas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • primas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Souter, Alexander (1949), “prīmās”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.[1], 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 322

    Portuguese

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    primas

    1. plural of prima

    Adjective

    primas

    1. plural of prima

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    primas

    1. second-person singular present subjunctive of premir

    Spanish

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    primas f pl

    1. feminine plural of primo

    Noun

    primas f pl

    1. plural of prima

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    primas

    1. second-person singular present subjunctive of premir
    2. second-person singular present indicative of primar

    Swedish

    Noun

    primas c

    1. (ecclesiastical) a primate

    Declension

    Declension of primas
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite primas primas
    definite primas primas
    plural indefinite
    definite

    See also

    Noun

    primas c

    1. (biochemistry) primase

    Declension

    Declension of primas
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite primas primass
    definite primasen primasens
    plural indefinite
    definite

    References