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primus

/ˈpɹaɪməs/

primus noun: one of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.

Noun (1)

primus (plural primuses)

  1. One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
    • my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury

Proper noun capitalized: Primus

Primus

  1. (dated) A male given name.

Noun (2) capitalized: Primus

Primus (plural Primuses)

  1. A Primus stove.
    • Varya walked past slowly, idly peeping into each of them. There was a vendor of Turkish delight and halvah. A haberdasher's stall. A cobbler. A whitesmith. A repairer of Primuses and oil stoves.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 53

Forms of primus

pluralprimuses
pluralPrimuses

Origin of primus

From Latin prīmus (“[the] first”); related to prior, the comparative form. Partially cognate to foremost, from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Doublet of prime and primo.

From Latin Prīmus, from prīmus (“first”).

From the trademark.

Words formed from primus

Phrases with primus

Words that rhyme with primus

Questions about primus

What does primus mean?
Primus means one of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
What part of speech is primus?
Primus can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce primus?
Primus is pronounced /ˈpɹaɪməs/.
What is the plural of primus?
The plural of primus is primuses.

Words near primus in the dictionary

  1. primuline
  2. primulines
  3. primulins
  4. primum mobile
  5. primum mobiles
  6. primus
  7. primus motor
  8. primus motors
  9. Primus stove
  10. Primus stoves
  11. primus-ship

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