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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian primo (“first”). Doublet of prime and primus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːmoʊ

Noun

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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.

Adjective

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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[1]: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[2], →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.

Translations

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  • Spanish: polenta (es), principal (es), más importante
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  • primo uomo

Anagrams

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  • impro

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun

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primo

  1. (dated) male first cousin; male full cousin Synonym: igtagsa
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  • ig-agaw

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.moː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo
  • Rhymes: -imoː

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin prīmō.

Adverb

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primo

  1. firstly Synonym: ten eerste Coordinate term: secundo

Etymology 2

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Ellipsis of Latin prīmō diē (“first day”).

Preposition

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primo

  1. (obsolete) the first day of Coordinate term: medio primo januari ― the first day of January

References

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  • Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “primo”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
  • Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “primo”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:primoWikipedia eo

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈprimo/
  • Rhymes: -imo
  • Syllabification: pri‧mo

Noun

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primo (accusative singular primon, plural primoj, accusative plural primojn)

  1. (mathematics) prime number

Further reading

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  • “primo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
  • “primo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present

French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:primoWikipedia fr

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pʁi.mo/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

Adverb

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primo

  1. first (before anything else) Synonym: premièrement

Further reading

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  • “primo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

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Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

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primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

  1. male cousin Synonym: curmán

Etymology 2

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From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

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primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)

  1. first
  2. (mathematics) prime
Synonyms
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  • (prime): número primo

Noun

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primo m (plural primos)

  1. (mathematics) prime number
Synonyms
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  • número primo

Verb

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primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Hiligaynon

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Noun

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primo (feminine prima)

  1. male cousin (of any degree of cousinhood)

Hypernyms

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  • pakaduha (“second cousin”)
  • pakaisa (“first cousin”)

Italian

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10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: uno, un     Ordinal: primo     Ordinal abbreviation: 1º     Adverbial: una volta     Multiplier: singolo     Distributive: singolarmente     Fractional: intero
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Alternative forms

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  • 1º m, 1ª f (abbreviation, in general)
  • I (abbreviation, in names of monarchs and popes)

Etymology

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From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpri.mo/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -imo
  • Hyphenation: prì‧mo

Adjective

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primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primi, feminine plural prime, superlative primissimo)

  1. (ordinal number) first
  2. initial
  3. main, principal
  4. (mathematics) prime numero primo ― prime number

Derived terms

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  • primamente
  • primissimo (“very first”)

Noun

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primo m (plural primi, feminine prima)

  1. first, first one
  2. former (first of aforementioned two items)
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  • in primo luogo
  • materia prima
  • numero primo
  • primario
  • primate
  • primato
  • primattore
  • primavera
  • primeggiare
  • primitivo
  • primizia
  • primogenito
  • primordiale
  • primordio
  • primula

Descendants

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  • → English: primo

Noun

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primo m (plural primi)

  1. (cooking) clipping of primo piatto; first course, starter Coordinate term: secondo

Anagrams

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  • pormi, rompi

Ladino

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish primo (“cousin”), from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

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primo m (Hebrew spelling פרימו)[1]

  1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
    • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎[3], numbers 11–34, page 407:Nacido en 1877, nieto del conde Henri d'Avigdor, amigo intimo de Napoleon III, Sir Osmond ajusto a su nombre, aquel de Goldsmid, a la muerte de su primo Sir Julien Goldsmid, donde el era el heredador.Born in 1877, grandson to Henri d’Avigdor, close friend of Napoleon III, Sir Osmond added Goldsmid to his name on the death of his cousin Sir Julien Goldsmid, where he was the heir.

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old Spanish primo (“first”), from Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Adjective

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primo (Hebrew spelling פרימו)[1]

  1. first
    • 1940, La boz de Türkiye‎[4], numbers 11–34, page 247:El primo districto administrativo judio sera establecido cercamente en Natania onde seran transferados todos los servicios publicos que fin ahora se topavan en Tolcarim.The first administrative Jewish district shall soon be established in Natania, where all of the public services shall be transferred that up until now were located in Tolcarim.
  2. excellent (pretty good) Synonym: ekselente

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premir
  2. first-person singular present indicative of primar

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “primo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Latin

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Pronunciation

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  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpriː.moː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpriː.mo]

Etymology 1

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From prīmus (“first”) +‎ -ō.

Alternative forms

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  • prīmum

Adverb

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

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

Etymology 2

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Inflected form of prīmus (“first”).

Adjective

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prīmō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prīmus

References

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  • “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[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) at the first opportunity: primo quoque tempore
    • (ambiguous) at the beginning of spring: ineunte, primo vere

Lombard

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Etymology

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From Latin prīmus.

Adjective

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primo m (feminine prima)

  1. (Old Lombard) the first

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Adjective

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primo m (feminine prima)

  1. (ordinal number) first (first up) Synonym: primeiro

Noun

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primo m

  1. cousin

Descendants

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  • Galician: primo
  • Portuguese: primo

References

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  • Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “primo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Spanish

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Adjective

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primo m (feminine prima)

  1. (ordinal number) first (first up) Synonym: primero
  2. prime (excellent)
  3. extreme (excessive)

Noun

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primo m (plural primos)

  1. cousin

Descendants

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  • Ladino: primo, פרימו
  • Spanish: primo

References

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  • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “primo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 409

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɾĩ.mu/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɾĩ.mu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɾi.mo/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpɾi.mu/
  • Audio (Portugal (Porto)):(file)
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo

Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Noun

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primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

  1. male cousin (son of a person’s uncle or aunt)
Descendants
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  • → Hunsrik: Prim

Etymology 2

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From Latin prīmus, from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos.

Noun

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primo m (plural primos)

  1. prime (number)

Etymology 3

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Verb

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primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premir

Further reading

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  • “primo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
  • “primo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian primo or French primo.

Adverb

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primo

  1. firstly, first

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾi.mo]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -imo
  • Syllabification: pri‧mo

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus (“first (cousin)”).

Noun

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primo m (plural primos, feminine prima, feminine plural primas)

  1. cousin (of male or unspecified gender)
Hyponyms
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  • primo cruzado
  • primo cuarto
  • primo hermano
  • primo quinto
  • primo segundo
  • primo tercero

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos (“foremost”, superlative of pri, "before, in front").

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Please explain the semantic development that produced the noun sense "sucker, gullible person". Neither the cited RAE entry nor the ASALE entry provide such detail.”

Adjective

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primo (feminine prima, masculine plural primos, feminine plural primas)

  1. first Synonym: primero
  2. (mathematics) prime
    • 2002, Martin Gardner (translation by Luis Bou García), Huevos, nudos y otras mistificaciones matemáticas, page 207:Todos ellos son impares, excepto el 2, que es reputado como «el más primo» de todos los primosAll of them are odd numbers, except for 2, which is considered "the primest" of all prime numbers.
Derived terms
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  • materia prima
  • número primo

Noun

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primo m (plural primos)

  1. (mathematics) prime number Synonym: número primo

Noun

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primo m (plural primos)

  1. (colloquial) sucker, gullible person Synonym: pardillo
Derived terms
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  • hacer el primo
  • primada
  • primazo

Verb

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primo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premir
  2. first-person singular present indicative of primar

Further reading

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  • “primo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
  • “primo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish primo, from Latin (cōnsobrīnus) prīmus.

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpɾimo/ [ˈpɾiː.mo]
  • Rhymes: -imo
  • Syllabification: pri‧mo

Noun

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primo (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜇᜒᜋᜓ) (archaic)

  1. cousin Synonym: pinsan
  2. friend Synonym: kaibigan

Further reading

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  • “primo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

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