principia

n. 原则, 基本原则, 基本原理; 原理, 初步( principium的名词复数 )

词形变化

principium

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    First principles; elementary material.

    古体

    1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith I do really think, that your book […] might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act […]

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipia.

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