principe

Borrowed from French principe, from Latin principium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌprɪnˈsi.pə/

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• Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pe
• Rhymes: -ipə

principe n (plural principes, diminutive principetje n)

1. principle [from late 18th c.]

   Synonym: beginsel

• principieel

• Afrikaans: prinsipe
• → Indonesian: prinsip
• → West Frisian: prinsipe

From principo (“principle”) +‎ -e (adverbial ending).

principe

1. in principle

Inherited from Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ̃.sip/

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principe m (plural principes)

1. principle
2. beginning; start; commencement

   dès le principe ― from the outset; from the start

3. (somewhat archaic) source; origin; cause
   • 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 2:

     Le principe de toute souveraineté réside essentiellement dans la nation.

     The source of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.

• en principe
• par principe
• partir du principe
• pétition de principe

• → Danish: princip
• → Dutch: principe
  • Afrikaans: prinsipe
  • → Indonesian: prinsip
  • → West Frisian: prinsipe
• → Norwegian Bokmål: prinsipp
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: prinsipp
• → Turkish: prensip

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

From Latin prīncipem (“chief”) (compare principio (“principle”) from the meaning "first").

• IPA^(key): /ˈprin.t͡ʃi.pe/
• Rhymes: -intʃipe
• Hyphenation: prìn‧ci‧pe

principe m (plural principi, feminine principessa)

1. prince

• prence
• principale
• principato
• principesco
• principio

prī̆ncipe

1. ablative singular of prī̆nceps

principe m (plural principes)

1. Obsolete spelling of príncipe

Borrowed from Italian principe, from Latin princeps.

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principe m (plural principi)

1. prince

principe

1. Misspelling of príncipe.

principe

1. inflection of principar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative