primoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/
• 韻: -iːmoʊ

名詞

primo (plural primos)

1. (music) The principal part of a duet.

   Coordinate term: secundo

2. (slang, drugs) Any high-quality drug.
3. (slang, drugs) A marijuana cigarette that has been laced with cocaine or heroin.

形容詞

primo (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Best; first-class.
   • 2010, Marie Kanger-Born, Confessions of a Chicago Punk Bystander, page 16:

     We strung Christmas lights around the ceiling to frame it. The final touches of coolness were my two spinning disco lights in the front room. That apartment was like my canvas and it was a primo party spot.

   • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎:

     I had to contort a bit to see during Act I, but the theater was not full — opera tickets, even at such prices, are a luxury for many Hungarians — so during the first intermission I moved to a primo orchestra seat, with not just the knowledge but the assistance of an usher.

   • 2025 June 13, Marina Hyde, “So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Like me, you will be so embarrassed for Earth’s primo edgelord that he feels pressed into doing something so excruciatingly conventional. This is worse than when Kate Moss was scapegoated into rehab.

関連する語

• primo uomo

アナグラム

• impro

語源 1

From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -ō.

別の表記

• prīmum

副詞

prīmō (superlative, positive prae, comparative prius, adjective prīmus)

1. first, firstly, first of all, first up, at first, before all else

語源 2

Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).

形容詞

prīmō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prīmus

参照

• “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “primo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “primo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    
  • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere