Primus

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪməs/

From Latin Prīmus, from prīmus (“first”).

Primus

1. (dated) A male given name.

• African-American slaves frequently had given names taken from classical Latin.

From the trademark.

Primus (plural Primuses)

1. A Primus stove.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 53:

     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.

• purism

Borrowed from Latin prīmus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʁiːmʊs/

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Primus m (strong, genitive Primus, plural Primi or (colloquial) Primusse)

1. (dated) top pupil of a class

   Synonyms: Klassenbester, Klassenerster

   • 1909 [1901], Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks […] ‎^[1], Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, →OCLC, page 598:

     Ihre Cousins, die beiden Söhne des Staatsanwaltes Doktor Moritz Hagenström andererseits, von zarterer Konstitution und sanfteren Sitten, zeichneten sich auf geistigem Gebiete aus und waren Musterschüler, ehrgeizig, devot, still und bienenfleißig, bebend aufmerksam und beinahe verzehrt von der Begier, stets Primus zu sein und das Zeugnis Numero Eins zu erhalten.

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

From prīmus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpriː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpriː.mus]

Prīmus

1. a Roman praenomen^[1]
2. a Roman cognomen

• Could be abbreviated PR or PRI.

• 1896, James Chidester Egbert, Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions, London; Longmans, Green & Company, page 88:

  Although the common praenomina were employed in naming the first four sons, nevertheless the following were used, finally with loss of original meaning : Primus PR or PRI / Secundus. / Tertius (abbreviated in one instance), TERT / Quartus, QVAR or QVART / Quintus. / Sextus.
  Irregularities. a) Cognomina as Praenomina. In certain countries, notably Gallia Cisalpina, cognomina were at times used as praenomina. So, Maximus C. I. L. V. 5902, Rufus C. I. L. V. 7064, Firmus C. I. L. V. 7339. In the Augustan period this transfer in use, so that cognimina served as praenomina, is found in the names of members of the imperial family, and those of the nobility.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈprimus/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈprimus/

Primus m pers

1. a male given name

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “Primus”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění