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Derived from Italian prima, derived from Latin prīma.

• enPR: prē′mə
• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiː.mə/
• Rhymes: -iːmə
• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima (not comparable)

1. most important

prima (plural primas)

1. Short for prima ballerina.

• Pamir, Priam

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾima/ [ˈpɾi.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: pri‧ma

prima f (plural primes)

1. cousin, female equivalent of primu

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈpɾi.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpɾi.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ima
• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima f (plural primes)

1. premium (a bonus paid in addition to normal payments)

prima

1. feminine singular of prim

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• “prima”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “prima”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “prima” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “prima”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Spanish prima (“female cousin”).

• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima

1. female cousin

   Coordinate term: primo

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɪma]

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• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima (indeclinable)

1. (informal) nice, great

prima

1. nice

• “prima”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “prima”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• (informal, slang) priem

Borrowed from Italian prima (“first, best”), which together with secunda and tertia denoted the three classes of wares. The latter two fell out of use, but prima stayed, although with a changed meaning.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.maː/

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• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima (not comparable)

1. excellent

   Dat is een prima wijntje.

   That's an excellent wine.

2. (informal) OK, satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional

   De wijn was prima, hoor.

   The wine was all right.

prima (not comparable)

1. good, fine

   Ik vind het helemaal prima.

   That's completely fine with me.

From primo +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprima/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: pri‧ma

prima (accusative singular priman, plural primaj, accusative plural primajn)(mathematics)

2. prime (element)

   prima faktoro ― prime factor

4. prime (ideal)

   La idealo de ĉiuj obloj de kvar ne estas prima, ĉar ses oble dek apartenas al ĝi, sed nek ses, nek dek estas obloj de kvar. ― The ideal of all multiples of four is not prime, because six times ten belongs to it, but neither six, nor ten are multiples of four.

6. relatively prime (elements)

   Dek kaj dudek unu ne estas primaj, sed ili estas primaj inter si. ― Ten and twenty-one are not prime, but they are prime to each other.

• sense 1: primo
• sense 2: idealo
• sense 3: entjero, ringo, divizoro, inversigebla

• interprimuma

• “prima”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

prima

1. feminine singular of prim

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prima

1. third-person singular past historic of primer

• parmi
• Priam

prima f (plural primas)

1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)

   Synonym: curmá

• primo

prima f (plural primas)

1. bonus

prima

1. inflection of primar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Italian prima.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʁiːma]

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prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)

1. (colloquial) great, super

   Synonyms: toll, klasse, schnieke

• “prima” in Duden online
• “prima”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Borrowed from Dutch prima and priem, ultimately from Latin primus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.ma/
• Rhymes: -ma
• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima (comparative lebih prima, superlative paling prima)

1. prime:
   1. first
   2. (mathematics) having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers)
2. prima

• “prima”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• 1ª (abbreviation)

See primo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.ma/
• Rhymes: -ima
• Hyphenation: prì‧ma

prima f

1. feminine singular of primo

prima

1. before

   Antonym: dopo

   Pensa prima di parlare. ― Think before you speak.

2. once, formerly
3. beforehand, in advance
4. earlier, sooner

prima f (plural prime)

1. the first
2. an opening night; a premier
3. the first year at school

• Dutch: prima
• German: prima
• Norwegian Bokmål: prima

Derived from Portuguese prima.

prima

1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

prima

1. feminine singular of prim

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prima (Hebrew spelling פרימה)^[1]

1. feminine singular of primo
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[2], page 433:

     Fue la prima i únika vez ke vidi en Israel una piesa dada a livel enternasional.

     It was the first and only time that I saw a play in Israel given on [an] international level.

prima f (Hebrew spelling פרימה)

1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
   • 1996, Sara Benveniste Benrey, edited by Yossi Benbenisty, Espertando el djudeo espanyol: poemas realidas i philosophia, kantes, sketches, piesas de teatro‎^[3], Yossi Benbenisty, page 291:

     Bella — Oh Dio! El es mi padre!
     Rivka — I el marido de mi prima. Ya me alegri muncho, es un buen ombre i mos keremos muncho bien, por siguro ke ya te va mirar komo un ijo suyo.

     Bella — Oh God! He’s my father!
     Rivka — And my cousin’s husband. Now he really pleased me; he is a good man and we love each other very much, definitely now that he is going to see you like his child.

prima (Hebrew spelling פרימה)

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of premir
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of premir
3. third-person singular present indicative of primar
4. second-person singular imperative of primar

prīma

1. inflection of prīmus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

prīmā

1. ablative feminine singular of prīmus

   prīmā lūce ― at first light, at daybreak

• "prima", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “prima”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • at daybreak: prima luce
    
  • from one's entry into civil life: ab ineunte (prima) aetate (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
    
  • to teach children the rudiments: pueros elementa (prima) docere
    
  • premises; consequences: prima (superiora); consequentia (Fin. 4. 19. 54)
    

Inherited from Latin prīma.

• (Old Lombard) IPA^(key): [ˈpɾima]

prima f (masculine primo)

1. (Old Lombard) the first
   • 1274, Bonvesin de la Riva, Libro de Tre Scrigiure:

     La prima sì è negra e è de grand pagura

     The first is black and instills great fear

• Lombard: primma

Derived from Italian prima (“before, once, at first, earlier”), feminine singular of primo (“first, initial, main”), from Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos, from Proto-Italic *priisemos (“foremost, first”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before, in front”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpriːma/

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• Rhymes: -iːma
• Hyphenation: pri‧ma

prima

1. only used in a prima vista (“sight-read”)

• rimpa

Shortened from Old Occitan primavera, from Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”). Cf. the unshortened Gascon form primavèra.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʁi.mɒ], [ˈpri.mɒ]

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prima f (plural primas)

1. spring (seasons)

Seasons in Occitan · sasons (layout · text) · category
prima (“spring”)	estiu (“summer”)	auton (“autumn”)	ivèrn (“winter”)

prima

1. feminine singular of primo

prima f

1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
2. (Christianity) First canonical hour.

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “prima”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

prima

1. feminine singular of primo

prima

1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
2. (Christianity) First canonical hour.

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “prima”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 409

Derived from Portuguese prima and Spanish prima and Kabuverdianu prima.

prima

1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

From Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpri.mɐ]

prima f

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• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 311: “la primavera” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese prima, from Latin prīma, feminine of prīmus (“first”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

prima f (plural primas)

1. female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)
2. (music) an instrument’s thinnest string
3. (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) the first canonical hour

• → Hunsrik: Prim

prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)

1. (of birds of prey) female

   Açor-prima.

   Female goshawk.

• obra prima
• matéria-prima
• primário
• primeiro
• primo

prima

1. inflection of premir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “prima”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “prima”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French primer.

• IPA^(key): /priˈma/

a prima (third-person singular present primează, past participle primat) 1st conjugation

1. to prevail, to take precedent
   • 1991 June, Ion Ciocanu, “Poezia lui Vladimir Cavarnali [Poetry of Vladimir Cavarnali]”, in Limba română [Romanian language], number 2, Chișinău, page 108:

     Cavarnali a cultivat o poezie de atmosferă, profund interiorizată, în care primează stările sufletești ale personajului liric.

     Cavarnali cultivated an atmospheric, profoundly internalised poetry, in which prevail the states of mind of the lyrical character.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpri.ma/

prima

1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of prim

• “prima”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Borrowed from Italian prima.

prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)

1. (music) unison

• “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “prima”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)

1. third-person singular present of primati

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾima/ [ˈpɾi.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: pri‧ma

Inherited from Latin prīma.

prima f (plural primas, masculine primo, masculine plural primos)

1. female equivalent of primo (“female cousin”)

From primo.

prima f (plural primas)

1. bonus

   Synonyms: bonificación, bono, premio

2. premium (amount to be paid for an insurance policy)
3. (music) the highest-pitched string on a string instrument
   • 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael‎^[5], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:

     Oíase como un ruido de alborozo en la enramada, donde un cantor unía las notas de su voz bronca a las de la prima y la bordona, atrayendo al sitio algunas mozas de trenza y pollera corta, y no pocas comadres de edad madura.

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prima f

1. feminine singular of primo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

prima

1. inflection of premir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of primar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Latin prima, from Latin primus (“first”).

prima (not inflected)

1. excellent; top quality

• impar