cumprimis

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cum (“at”) +‎ primis (“first”)

Adverb

cumprīmīs

  1. first, first of all, before all others, better than all others
    • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 660:
      eradicare est certum cumprimis patrem, post id locorum matrem
      I’m resolved to root out my father first and then my mother
    • 1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I:
      Prima Venerem repraesentat... In Caelum recepta rei Meretriciae praesedit, quam cum primis intellegere putabatur...
      The first [statue] displays Venus... Received into Heaven, she presided over all things related to Whoring, which she was thought to understand before all others...
  2. with the foremost, especially, particularly
    • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, De deo Socratis 22:
      Sed cumprimis mirandum est, quod ea, quae minime videri volunt nescire
      But what is particularly remarkable, the very things that they least want to seem ignorant of are the ones they refuse to learn

References

  • “cumprimis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cumprimis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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