Word.ws English Dictionary

primitia

/pɹɪˈmɪʃə/

primitia noun: the first fruits.

Noun

primitia (plural primitias or primitiae)

  1. (obsolete) The first fruits.
  2. (UK, obsolete) The first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.
    • the primitias of your parsonage1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

Forms of primitia

pluralprimitias
pluralprimitiae

Origin of primitia

From Latin primitiae (“first fruits”).

Questions about primitia

What does primitia mean?
Primitia means the first fruits.
What part of speech is primitia?
Primitia is a noun.
How do you pronounce primitia?
Primitia is pronounced /pɹɪˈmɪʃə/.
What is the plural of primitia?
The plural of primitia is primitias.

Words near primitia in the dictionary

  1. primiparity
  2. primiparous
  3. primipaternity
  4. primipilar
  5. primips
  6. primitia
  7. primitiae
  8. primitial
  9. primitias
  10. primitive
  11. primitive accumulation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: primitia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “primitia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/primitia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.