🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

主要な

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shuyōna

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Prime/praɪm/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #800 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"数字7は素数です。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Of the best possible quality; excellent.

    "The restaurant is known for its prime cuts of meat."
As noun
  1. 1

    A number greater than one that has no positive divisors other than one and itself.

    "The number 7 is a prime."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'prime' originates from the Latin 'primus', meaning 'first'. It evolved through Old French 'prim', which retained the sense of being first in importance or rank, leading to its current usage in English since the late Middle Ages.

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