Noun: primus
| Singular | primus |
| Plural | primuses |
Sample Sentences
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1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury
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my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses
Nouns inflected like primus
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Nouns '
prīmus'.