primo
Americannoun
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the part of a piano duet played on the upper half of the keyboard.
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the first or leading part in an ensemble.
adjective
noun
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music the upper or right-hand part in a piano duet Compare secondo
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Also: primo tempo. at the same speed as at the beginning of the piece
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Etymology
Origin of primo
First recorded in 1785–95; from Italian: literally, “first,” from Latin prīmus; see prime
Vocabulary lists containing primo
Music - Middle School
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It was a primo gig: Kelly got an hour of the Today show, a Sunday-night newsmagazine program, and a correspondent role during breaking news and political coverage.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
It’s an extra $60 for the VIP upgrade, which comes with some kind of primo parking.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
"Everything is built around that primo scare moment."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
To the U.S. media and its consumers "Spare" is a celebrity's offering of the most exclusive of access around, in the form of primo dish on the royal family.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2023
“You’ll need coffee. The primo stuff. And lots of it,” Dr. Blankenship said, starting for the kitchen.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
The silky, beef-infused onion sauce gets spooned over the pasta primi course before the chuck roast arrives as the fall-apart main event.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
That demand was made by the conspirators on account of Publius Salonius; who in alternate years was both tribune of the soldiers and first centurion, which they now call primi pili.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
At the end--just before the date, and the four colophonic verses of the printer--we read: "Finis primi ptis lecture dni Bartoli super ffto nouo."
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Antonio Pucci, in the eighty-fifth canto of his Centiloquio, distinctly states that Giotto carved the earlier ones, i primi intagli fe con bello stile, and Pucci was almost Giotto's contemporary.
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
They have never been more than their name, "Fuerst," implies, the first and foremost of German freemen, "primi inter pares."
From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
Police say that after a co-ordinated effort between Colombian and British authorities, a criminal group called "los primos" was dismantled.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2023
“It’s a place where people call each other primos and parientes” — cousins and relatives — Garcia, 50, said.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
“There was a lot of misinformation being passed around on WhatsApp and that’s where the primos and tías were reading,” Montes said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
My younger primos laughed that we’d want to go see a washed-up player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
Accordingly, several primos came down one Sunday afternoon and installed half-a-dozen primos; so that for the future I was relieved of much work in connection with the lodge.
From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
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