Meanings
primus1
plural primuses
- One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses
Primus2
- datedA male given name.
Primus3
plural Primuses
- A Primus stove.
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.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 53
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers
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Origin
primus · noun
- Proto-Indo-European[Term?]
- Latinprīmus“[the] first”
- Englishprimus
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.
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Full word history & related roots →Primus · proper noun
- LatinPrīmus
- EnglishPrimus
From Latin Prīmus, from prīmus (“first”).
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Cite this entry
primus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/primus
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