primiero

See also: Primiero

Italian

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Old French premier (“first”), from Classical Latin prīmārius (“of the first rank, chief, principal, excellent”). Doublet of primaio and primario

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /priˈmjɛ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛro
• Hyphenation: pri‧miè‧ro

Adjective

primiero (feminine primiera, masculine plural primieri, feminine plural primiere) (literary)

1. first:
   1. earliest

      Synonym: primo

      • 1810 [c. 8^th century BCE], “Libro IV”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 284–289; republished as Iliade di Omero‎, 4^th edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:

        […] chi primiero
        L’accordo vïolò, pasto vedrassi
        Di voraci avoltoi […]

        [original: ἀλλ’ οἵ περ πρότεροι ὑπὲρ ὅρκια δηλήσαντο
        τῶν ἤτοι αὐτῶν τέρενα χρόα γῦπες ἔδονται […]]

        all’ hoí per próteroi hupèr hórkia dēlḗsanto
        tôn ḗtoi autôn térena khróa gûpes édontai […]

        […] the first ones to break the agreement will find themselves [being a] meal for voracious vultures […]

   2. most valued
   3. most important
2. juvenile (of age)
3. primitive, original
4. main, prime, principal

Adverb

primiero

1. (obsolete) firstly, first

   Synonym: per primo

Noun

primiero m (plural primieri)

1. the first element of a word in a game of charades

Derived terms

• primieramente

References

• primiero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• imporrei, premorii, riempirò