primeiro

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Galician

Galician numbers (edit)
10
1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal (standard / masculine): un
    Cardinal (standard / feminine): unha
    Cardinal (reintegrationist / masculine): um
    Cardinal (reintegrationist / feminine): umha, uma
    Ordinal: primeiro
    Ordinal abbreviation:

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese primeiro, from Latin prīmārius (one of the first), from prīmus (first).

Pronunciation

Adjective

primeiro (feminine primeira, masculine plural primeiros, feminine plural primeiras)

  1. first
    Antonyms: derradeiro, último
    • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
      eu quero ser a permeyra,
      que lle ofrezo decontado
      trinta netos de Manteyga
      I want to be the first one,
      because I offer her right away
      thirty pints of butter

Adverb

primeiro

  1. first

References

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin prīmārius (one of the first), from prīmus (first).

Pronunciation

Adjective

primeiro m (plural primeiros, feminine primeira, feminine plural primeiras)

  1. first, ordinal form of ũu

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Fala: primeiru
  • Galician: primeiro
  • Portuguese: primeiro

Adverb

primeiro

  1. Synonym of primeiramente

Further reading

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: um
    Ordinal: primeiro
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1.º,
    Multiplier: único, singular
    Fractional: inteiro

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese primeiro, from Latin prīmārius (one of the first), from prīmus (first). Doublet of primário. By surface analysis, primo + -eiro.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾiˈme(j).ɾu/ [pɾiˈme(ɪ̯).ɾu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾiˈme(j).ɾo/ [pɾiˈme(ɪ̯).ɾo]
 

Adjective

primeiro (feminine primeira, masculine plural primeiros, feminine plural primeiras)

  1. first (ordinal form of um (one))
    Antonyms: último, derradeiro

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:primeiro.

Noun

primeiro m (plural primeiros)

  1. the first one
  2. first (the first day of the month)

Usage notes

Other days of the month are expressed with cardinals rather than ordinals.

Adverb

primeiro (not comparable)

  1. first (before all others)
    Eu fiz isso primeiro.
    I did that first.
  2. first of all (used to introduce the first of a series of remarks, often with an angry tone)
    Synonym: primeiramente
    Primeiro, você não tem evidência de nada disso.
    First of all, you have no evidence of any of that.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:primeiro.

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