Primoris, pen. pro. genitiuus, cuius nominatiuus non reperitur. Pluraliter, Primores, primorum. &c. The first: the chiefe: the foremoll part: the top or end.Hoc digitulis, duobus sumebas primoribus. Pla. Thou didst take this with the tops of thy two fore fingers.Versabatur mihi in labris primoribus.Plaut.It was euen in the edge of my lips, and may be vsed for that we saye, It was euen at my tongues end.Extollito primorem partem, Cato.Holde vp the top or fore end.Nisi primoris acumen. Lucre. The sharpnesse of the toppe of the nose.Primoribus labris gustare.Cicer.Scantly to touch with the lippes: to haue a slender smattering and light feeling of a thing, but no perfite knowledge: lightly to tast the knowledge of a thing. Primores, pro primis accipitur: vt Primores imbres. Var. The first shoures.Anni primores. Sil. Primores dentes. Plin. The foreteeth.Animaduerti quosdam viros opinari vestibulum esse partÊ domus primorem. Gell. To thinke that the forepart of the house which they cal the porche, is vestibulum. Primori in acie versabantur.Tacit.They were in the verye forefront of the armie. Primores, pro optimatibus.Liu.Noble men: gentlemen.Populi primores. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prīmōris, e (nom. sing. not in use), adj. [primus], the first, first (class. in plur.). I. In gen. (rare): imbres, Varr. R. R. 2, 2: dentes,
the front teeth
, Plin. 7, 16, 15, 70: in primore pueritiā,
in earliest childhood
, Gell. 10, 19, 3: anni,
first
,
earliest
, Sil. 1, 511: primori Marte, in the first part or beginning of the war, id. 11, 143: primore aspectu,
, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 87; cf. id. Cael. 12, 28; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 428, 3: surculum primorem praeacuito obliquum primores digitos duos, Cato, R. R. 40, 3; Lucil. ap. Non. 427, 27: eduxique animam in primoribu' naribus, id. ib. 427, 32: nasi primoris acumen, Lucr. 6, 1193: (pilo) primori inest pyxis ferrea, Plin. 18, 11, 29, 112; 10, 33, 51, 99: cauda late fusa primori parte, id. 8, 54, 80, 216: vestibulum esse partem domus primorem, Gell. 16, 5, 2: in primore libro,
at the beginning of the book
, Gell. 1, 18, 3: usque in primores manus ac prope in digitos,
as far as the forepart of the hands
, id. 7, 12: primori in acie versari, Tac. H. 3, 21.—B.The first in rank or dignity, chief, principal (poet. and postclass.—In Liv. 24, 20, 13, Weissenb. reads: inpigre conscriptā; v. also Madvig. ad Cic. Fin. 3, 16, 52): Argivorum viri, Cat. 68, 87: feminae, Tac. A. 2, 29: venti,
chief
,
cardinal
, Gell. 2, 22.—Hence, subst.: prīmō-res, um, m.(a).The front rank in battle, etc.: dum inter primores promptius dimicat, sagittā ictus est, Curt. 4, 6, 17.—(b).The men of the first rank, the chiefs, nobles, patricians (cf. princeps): Amphitruo delegit viros primorum principes, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 49: odio alienae honestatis ereptus primoribus ager, Liv. 1, 47, 11: primores populi arripuit, Hor. S. 2, 1, 69: civitatum primores atque optimates, Col. 12, 3, 10: primores, ac duces, Juv. 15, 40: ex primoribus, Tac. A. 13, 30; 4, 33; Vulg. 2 Macc. 8, 9.