primiero
See also: Primiero
Italian
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Old French premier (“first”), from Classical Latin prīmārius (“of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent”). Doublet of primaio and primario
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /priˈmjɛ.ro/
- Rhymes: -ɛro
- Hyphenation: pri‧miè‧ro
Adjective
primiero (feminine primiera, masculine plural primieri, feminine plural primiere) (literary)
- first:
- earliest
- Synonym: primo
- 1810 [c. 8th century BCE], “Libro IV”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 284–289; republished as Iliade di Omero, 4th edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:
- […] chi primiero
L’accordo vïolò, pasto vedrassi
Di voraci avoltoi […]- [original: ἀλλ’ οἵ περ πρότεροι ὑπὲρ ὅρκια δηλήσαντο
τῶν ἤτοι αὐτῶν τέρενα χρόα γῦπες ἔδονται […]] - all’ hoí per próteroi hupèr hórkia dēlḗsanto
tôn ḗtoi autôn térena khróa gûpes édontai […]
- all’ hoí per próteroi hupèr hórkia dēlḗsanto
- […] the first ones to break the agreement will find themselves [being a] meal for voracious vultures […]
- [original: ἀλλ’ οἵ περ πρότεροι ὑπὲρ ὅρκια δηλήσαντο
- most valued
- most important
- earliest
- juvenile (of age)
- primitive, original
- main, prime, principal
Derived terms
References
- primiero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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