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principium

principium is the singular of principia.

Meaning of principia

Noun

principia pl (normally plural, singular principium)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-normally) First principles; elementary material.
    • I do really think, that your book […] might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act […]1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith

Forms of principium

pluralprincipia

Origin of principium

Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipium.

Words formed from principium

Questions about principium

What is principium the singular of?
Principium is the singular of principia.

Words near principium in the dictionary

  1. principiates
  2. principiating
  3. principiation
  4. principiations
  5. principicide
  6. principium
  7. principium individuationis
  8. principle
  9. principle of charity
  10. principle of contradiction
  11. principle of excluded middle

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