primus

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n. 普里默斯炉(一种便携式汽化煤油炉) a. 第一的

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/ˈpɹaɪməs/

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primuses 复数 primuses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.

    1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses

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From Latin prīmus (“[the] first”); related to prior, the comparative form. Partially cognate to foremost, from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Doublet of prime and primo.

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