English

Etymology

Noun

1. The principal part of a duet.

Antonyms

• secundo

Adjective

1. Best; first-class.

Italian

Alternative forms

• 1º , 1ª
• I

Adjective

1. first
2. initial
3. main, principal

Noun

1. first, first one
2. initial one
3. main one, principal one

1. first course (of a meal)

Related terms

• primogenito
• primordiale
• primordi

Latin

Adverb

1. at first

Portuguese

Noun

1. cousin (son or daughter of a person’s uncle or aunt)

Spanish

Noun

1. cousin

Usage notes

People

• Primo Carnera (1906 – 1967), Italian boxer, World Heavyweight champion 1933 - 1934
• Primo Cassarino (born 1956), enforcer for the Gambino crime family
• Primo Conti (1900 - 1988), Italian Futurist artist
• Primo Levi (1919 - 1987), Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor, and author
• Primo Riccitelli (1875 - 1941), Italian composer
• Primo Zamparini, Italian bantamweight Olympic and professional boxer
• Primož Brezec (born 1979), Slovenian professional basketball player
• Al Primo (born 1938), television news executive credited with creating the Eyewitness News format
• Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos (1760 — 1808), New Spain lawyer and politician
• The Italian name of Saint Primus
• A nickname for American DJ and hiphop producer DJ Premier

See also

• Primo de Rivera

Places in Italy

• Casorate Primo, a municipality in the Province of Pavia in Lombardy
• Castano Primo, a municipality in the Province of Milan in Lombardy
• Masciago Primo, a municipality in the Province of Varese in Lombardy
• Palasport Primo Carnera, an indoor sporting arena in Udine

Art, music, and literature

• Primo (2005 film), a 2005 film of Antony Sher's play of the same title, adapted from Primo Levi's Holocaust memoir If This Is a Man
• Primo Victoria, a 2005 album by Swedish power-metal band Sabaton
• O Primo Basílio, an 1878 novel by Portuguese author José Maria Eça de Queiroz
• Riccardo Primo, a 1727 opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel
• An alternate term for the subidor, a drum used in the music of Puerto Rico

Business and industry

• Primo Filmes, a Brazilian film production company
• Primo Schincariol, a South American brewery and beverage maker based in Brazil
• PRIMO (software), software for bio-informatics developed at the Genome Center at University of Texas at Austin
• PRIMOS, an operating system developed during the 1970s by Prime Computer
• DUPLO Primo and Lego Primo, now known as Lego Baby, a line of Lego blocks for small children
• Plaxton Primo, a type of small bus produced by Plaxton
• Primo Lenses, a lenses brand-line manufactured by Panavision Inc.

Other

• Primo visto, a 16th-century card game
• Primos (SEPTA station), a station along the SEPTA West Chester Line in Pennsylvania
• Primo Longobordo (S-501), an Italian submarine that may once have been the USS Volador (SS-490)