Latin

Adverb

prīmitus ‎(not comparable)

1. originally, at first
   • 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 15.8

     Sed pertinuit ad Deum, quo ista inspirante conscripta sunt, has duas societates suis diuersis generationibus primitus digerere atque distinguere […]

     But it suited the purpose of God, by whose inspiration these histories were composed, to arrange and distinguish from the first these two societies in their several generations […]

Related terms

• prīmiter
• prīmus

References

• primitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• primitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PRIMITUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “primitus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.