primo
Americannoun
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primos,
plural
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primi
plural
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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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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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The airline is even going to restrict access to its primo Delta One Lounges beginning next year if you buy its new basic-business ticket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Leaving my phone outside my bedroom didn’t work; there were so many hours of primo scrolling time between 6 p.m. and bedtime.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026
It’s an extra $60 for the VIP upgrade, which comes with some kind of primo parking.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
In the first known swap of a primo sportscaster for a geriatric cartoon critter, Walt Disney Co. is trading ABC’s Al Michaels to NBC for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
Ever since kindergarten, the primo nerd, bar none, had been Hugh Winkleman.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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
Among the class of silly emblems, few books can vie with the Imago primi Soeculi Societatis Jesu.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
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
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 Edmund G. Gardner
Cassini, his son and his grandson were only primi inter pares.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" 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
Bad news, Junior: Your primos already called dibs on your bunk bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
“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
Robinson despised the old-fashioned Ethics and Physics, but with the new Cartesian or Experimental Philosophy he was inter primos.
From Andrew Marvell by John Morley
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