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

• primat

Further reading

• “primas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [priːˈmaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [priˈmas]

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *pri

Proto-Indo-European *-yōs

Proto-Indo-European *-(t)m̥mos

Proto-Indo-European *-is(t)m̥mós

Proto-Italic *-isəmos

Proto-Italic *prīsmos

Latin prīmus

Latin -̄ās

Latin prīmās

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
  • English: primate
  • German: Primat
  • Russian: прима́т (primát)

Noun

prīmās m (genitive prīmātis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prīmās	prīmātēs
genitive	prīmātis	prīmātium
dative	prīmātī	prīmātibus
accusative	prīmātem	prīmātēs
ablative	prīmāte	prīmātibus
vocative	prīmās	prīmātēs

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	—	—

Related terms

• primat

See also

• ärkebiskop (“archbishop”)

Noun

primas c

1. (biochemistry) primase

Declension

Declension of primas

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	primas	primass
	definite	primasen	primasens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• “primas”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “primas”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “primas”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)