primo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/

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• Rhymes: -iːmoʊ

primo (plural primos)

1. (music) The principal part of a duet.

   Coordinate term: secundo

2. (slang, drugs) Any high-quality drug.
3. (slang, drugs) A marijuana cigarette that has been laced with cocaine or heroin.

primo (not comparable)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

   • 2025 June 13, Marina Hyde, “So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Like me, you will be so embarrassed for Earth’s primo edgelord that he feels pressed into doing something so excruciatingly conventional. This is worse than when Kate Moss was scapegoated into rehab.

• primo uomo

• impro

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

• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

primo

1. (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin

   Synonym: igtagsa

• ig-agaw

Inherited from Spanish primo (“cousin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾimo/, [ˈpɾi.mo]
• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

primo

1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)

   Coordinate term: prima

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.moː/

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• Hyphenation: pri‧mo
• Rhymes: -imoː

Borrowed from Latin prīmō.

primo

1. firstly

   Synonym: ten eerste

   Coordinate term: secundo

Ellipsis of Latin prīmō diē (“first day”).

primo

1. (obsolete) the first day of

   Coordinate term: medio

   primo januari ― the first day of January

• Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “primo”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
• Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “primo”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

• IPA^(key): /ˈprimo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification: pri‧mo

primo (accusative singular primon, plural primoj, accusative plural primojn)

1. (mathematics) prime number

• “primo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “primo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.mo/

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primo

1. first (before anything else)

   Synonym: premièrement

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

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

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

1. male cousin

   Synonym: curmán

From Latin prīmus.

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

1. first
2. (mathematics) prime

• (prime): número primo

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

• número primo

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

primo (feminine prima)

1. male cousin (of any degree of cousinhood)

Italian numbers ^(edit)

		10
	←  0	1	2  →	10  →
Cardinal: uno, un     Ordinal: primo     Ordinal abbreviation: 1º     Adverbial: una volta     Multiplier: singolo     Distributive: singolarmente     Fractional: intero
Italian Wikipedia article on 1

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.mo/

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• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: prì‧mo

primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime, superlative primissimo)

1. (ordinal number) first
2. initial
3. main, principal
4. (mathematics) prime

   numero primo ― prime number

• primamente
• primissimo (“very first”)

primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)

1. first, first one
2. former (first of aforementioned two items)

• → English: primo

primo m (plural primi)

1. (cooking) clipping of primo piatto; first course, starter

   Coordinate term: secondo

• pormi, rompi

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

primo m (Hebrew spelling פרימו)^[1]

1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
   • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎^[3], 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.

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

primo (Hebrew spelling פרימו)^[1]

1. first
   • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎^[4], 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.

2. excellent (pretty good)

   Synonym: ekselente

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premir
2. first-person singular present indicative of primar

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpriː.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpriː.mo]

prīmō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prīmus

From prīmus (“first”) + -ō.

• prīmum

prīmō (superlative, positive prae, comparative prius, adjective prīmus)

1. first; firstly; first of all; first up; at first; before all else

• “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^[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere
    

From Latin prīmus.

primo m (feminine prima)

1. (Old Lombard) the first

Old Galician-Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		10[a], [b]
		1	2  →	10  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: ũu     Ordinal: primeiro, primo

primo m (feminine prima)

1. (ordinal number) first (first up)

   Synonym: primeiro

primo m

1. cousin

• Galician: primo
• Portuguese: primo

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

primo m (feminine prima)

1. (ordinal number) first (first up)

   Synonym: primero

2. prime (excellent)
3. extreme (excessive)

primo m (plural primos)

1. cousin

• Ladino: primo, פרימו
• Spanish: primo

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

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• Hyphenation: pri‧mo

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

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

1. male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)

• → Hunsrik: Prim

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

primo m (plural primos)

1. prime (number)

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premir

• “primo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “primo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Italian primo or French primo.

primo

1. firstly, first

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]

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• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification: pri‧mo

Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus (“first (cousin)”).

primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
2. (slang, Melilla, chiefly masculine) cuz, man, bro, homie

   ¿Quieres problemas, primo?

   You want beef, home?

Borrowed from Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos (“foremost”, superlative of pri, "before, in front").

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

1. first

   Synonym: primero

2. (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

     All of them are odd numbers, except for 2, which is considered "the primest" of all prime numbers.

primo m (plural primos)

1. (mathematics) prime number

   Synonym: número primo

primo m (plural primos)

1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person

   Synonym: pardillo

primo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premir
2. first-person singular present indicative of primar

• “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “primo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

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

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

primo (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜓ) (archaic)

1. cousin

   Synonym: pinsan

2. friend

   Synonym: kaibigan

• “primo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018