primitia

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/pɹɪˈmɪʃə/

noun

The first fruits.

OriginLatin primitiae →
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Meanings

nounprimitia (plural primitias or primitiae or primitiæ)

plural primitias · plural primitiae · plural primitiæ

  1. obsoleteThe first fruits.

    They offered too, the Primitiæ, or the first carvings of the flesh

    1657, Longus, translated by George Thornley, Daphnis and Chloe
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    The small annual offerings or tribute in special dainties — the first fish caught, vegetable primitiæ, special nuts and fruits — are by no means a source of revenue; in fact the chief has to repay them at full value.

    1929, Bronisław Malinowski, The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia/Chapter 5, Chapter 5
  2. UKobsoletelawThe first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.

    the primitias of your parsonage

    1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinprimitiae“first fruits”
  2. Englishprimitia

From Latin primitiae (“first fruits”).

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