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5-letter words (1 found)

PRIMA,

4-letter words (9 found)

AMIR,MAIR,PAIR,PIMA,PRAM,PRIM,RAMI,RAMP,RIMA,

3-letter words (19 found)

AIM,AIR,AMI,AMP,ARM,IMP,MAP,MAR,MIR,PAM,PAR,PIA,PIR,RAI,RAM,RAP,RIA,RIM,RIP,

2-letter words (7 found)

AI,AM,AR,MA,MI,PA,PI,

You can make 36 words from prima according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of prima

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Definitions and meaning of prima

prima

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹiːmə/
  • Rhymes: -iːmə

Adjective

prima (not comparable)

  1. most important

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Pamir, Priam

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾima/, [ˈpɾi.ma]

Noun

prima f (plural primes)

  1. cousin, female equivalent of primu

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɾi.mə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈpɾi.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ima

Noun

prima f (plural primes)

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

Adjective

prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

Further reading

  • “prima” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “prima”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “prima” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “prima” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈprɪma]

Adjective

prima (indeclinable)

  1. (informal) nice, great

Interjection

prima

  1. nice

Related terms

Further reading

  • prima in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • prima in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • (informal, slang) priem

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈprimaː/

Adjective

prima (not comparable)

  1. excellent

Adverb

prima (not comparable)

  1. good, fine

French

Pronunciation

Verb

prima

  1. third-person singular past historic of primer

Anagrams

  • parmi
  • Priam

Galician

Etymology 1

Noun

prima f (plural primas)

  1. female equivalent of primo (“cousin”)
    Synonym: curmá
Related terms
  • primo

Etymology 2

Noun

prima f (plural primas)

  1. bonus

Etymology 3

Verb

prima

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

German

Etymology

From Italian prima.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʁiːma]

Adjective

prima (strong nominative masculine singular primaer, not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) great, super
    Synonyms: toll, klasse, schnieke

Further reading

  • “prima” in Duden online
  • “prima” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch prima, from Italian prima, from Latin [Term?].

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

prima

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

Further reading

  • “prima” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Alternative forms

  • 1ª (abbreviation)

Etymology

See primo.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

prima f

  1. feminine singular of primo

Adverb

prima

  1. before
    Antonym: dopo
    Pensa prima di parlare. ― Think before you speak.
  2. once, formerly
  3. beforehand, in advance
  4. earlier, sooner

Noun

prima f (plural prime)

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

Related terms

  • di prima
  • il prima possibile
  • prima del tempo
  • prima di tutto
  • primadonna
  • prima o poi
  • primatista
  • primato
  • quanto prima

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: prima

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese prima.

Noun

prima

  1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

Ladin

Adjective

prima

  1. feminine singular of prim

Latin

Numeral

prīma

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

Numeral

prīmā

  1. ablative feminine singular of prīmus
    prīmā lūce ― at first light, at daybreak

References

  • prima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpriːma/
  • Rhymes: -iːma
  • Hyphenation: pri‧ma

Adverb

prima

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

Anagrams

  • rimpa

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʁi.mɒ], [ˈpri.mɒ]

Noun

prima f (plural primas)

  1. spring (seasons)

See also

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese prima and Spanish prima and Kabuverdianu prima.

Noun

prima

  1. cousin (daughter of the uncle)

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin prīma, feminine of prīmus (“first”), from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

Pronunciation

Noun

prima f (plural primas)

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

Adjective

prima m or f (plural primas, not comparable)

  1. (of birds of prey) female
Related terms
  • obra prima
  • matéria-prima
  • primário
  • primeiro
  • primo

Etymology 2

Verb

prima

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

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French primer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /priˈma/

Verb

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

  1. to prevail, to take precedent
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.ma/

Adjective

prima

  1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of prim

Further reading

  • prima in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian prima.

Noun

prima f (Cyrillic spelling прима)

  1. (music) unison

Further reading

  • “prima” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • “prima” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

prima (Cyrillic spelling прима)

  1. third-person singular present of primati

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin prīma.

Noun

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

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

Etymology 2

From primo.

Noun

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
Derived terms

Adjective

prima f

  1. feminine singular of primo

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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

Further reading

  • “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

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

Adjective

prima (not inflected)

  1. excellent; top quality

Anagrams

  • impar

Source: wiktionary.org