🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

primeiro

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /pɾiˈmej.ɾu/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Primo/ˈpriː.moʊ/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele comprou um carro de primeira linha."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Of top quality; first-rate or excellent.

    "The chef prepared the meal using only primo ingredients imported from Italy."
As noun
  1. 1

    The higher or leading part in a piano duet, played by one of two performers.

    "She practiced the primo part of the sonata for weeks before the recital."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Italian word 'primo', meaning 'first', which comes from the Latin 'primus'. In English usage, it has been adopted both as a musical term indicating the main part in a duetto and as informal slang denoting something of superior quality or highest rank.

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