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Morphology Lemmata primordia (external link: primordia )Forms: primordia (data provider: perseus), primordiaque (data provider: perseus), primordiis (data provider: perseus), primordiorum (data provider: donatus-sup), primordium (data provider: perseus)primordium (external link: primordium )Forms: primordia (data provider: perseus), primordiaque (data provider: perseus), primordii (data provider: perseus), primordiis (data provider: perseus), primordio (data provider: perseus), primordium (data provider: perseus)primordius (external link: primordius )Forms: primordia (data provider: perseus), primordiaque (data provider: perseus), primordii (data provider: perseus), primordiis (data provider: perseus), primordio (data provider: perseus), primordium (data provider: perseus), primordius (data provider: perseus)Dictionary Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary primordia prīmordĭa, ōrum, v. primordius. primordium prīmordĭum, ii, v. primordius. primordius prīmordĭus, a, um, adj. [primus-ordior], original (post-Aug.): primordii seminis mistu , Col. 6, 37, 7 dub. (al. primordiis seminum).—Hence, as subst. : prīmor-dĭum, n. , and more usually plur. : prī-mordĭa (gen. not in use; principiorum takes its place, Munro ad Lucr. 3, 262 ; separated and transposed, ordĭa prīma, Lucr. 4, 28 ), n.
I. The first beginnings , origin , commencement (class.; syn.: principium, initium): primordia rerum, Cic. Part. 2, 7: a Jove Musarum primordia, id. poët. Leg. 2, 3, 7: mundi , Ov. M. 15, 67 : gentis , Luc. 10, 177 : veterum vocum , Pers. 6, 3 : inquieta a primordiis vita , Sen. Brev. Vit. 6, 1 : artis , Lact. 12, 10, 3 : eloquentiae , Tac. Or. 12 ; Gell. 12, 1, 9 ; 17 ; Lact. 3, 29, 16 ; Just. 31, 5, 7 : dicendi , Quint. 1, 9, 1 : terrena , Col. 3, 10, 10 : mundi , Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 4, 1 : in primordiis , Pall. 4, 12 .—In sing. : a primordio urbis, Liv. init. ; Col. 1, 1 : in operum suorum primordio stare , in the first beginning , Curt. 9, 2, 11 ; Just. 2, 1 : tam tenues primordio imperi fuere fines , Plin. 3, 5, 9, 56 .—
II. Absol. , the beginning of a new reign , Tac. A. 1, 7 .
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