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Primus
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin Prīmus, from prīmus (“first”).
Proper noun
Primus
- (dated) A male given name.
Usage notes
- African-American slaves frequently had given names taken from classical Latin.
Etymology 2
From the trademark.
Noun
Primus (plural Primuses)
- A Primus stove.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 53:
- 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.
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German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Primus m (strong, genitive Primus, plural Primi or (colloquial) Primusse)
- (dated) top pupil of a class
- Synonyms: Klassenbester, Klassenerster
- 1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks […] , Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, page 598:
- Ihre Cousins, die beiden Söhne des Staatsanwaltes Doktor Moritz Hagenström andererseits, von zarterer Konstitution und sanfteren Sitten, zeichneten sich auf geistigem Gebiete aus und waren Musterschüler, ehrgeizig, devot, still und bienenfleißig, bebend aufmerksam und beinahe verzehrt von der Begier, stets Primus zu sein und das Zeugnis Numero Eins zu erhalten.
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Declension
Declension of Primus [masculine, strong]
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