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From French primate, from Latin primas (“one of the first, chief, excellent, noble”). So named due to the belief that primates are the “highest” order of mammals/animals. First attested in 1876.
primate (plural primates)
- (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes, monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.
- (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape (including human) or monkey.
- See also Thesaurus:primate
mammal
- Afrikaans: primaat
- Albanian: primat m
- Arabic: رَئِيسِيَّات f pl (raʔīsiyyāt) (collective)
- Armenian: պրիմատ (hy) (primat)
- Asturian: primate (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: primat
- Belarusian: прыма́т m (prymát)
- Bulgarian: прима́т m (primát)
- Burmese: ပရိုင်းမိတ် (pa.ruing:mit)
- Catalan: primat m
- Chinese:
- Czech: primát (cs) m, nehetnatec m
- Danish: primat c
- Dutch: primaat (nl) m
- Estonian: esikloomaline, primaat
- Finnish: kädellinen (fi)
- French: primate (fr) m
- Georgian: პრიმატი (ṗrimaṭi)
- German: Primat (de) m
- Greek: πρωτεύον n (protévon)
- Hebrew: פְּרִימָט m
- Hindi: नरवानर m (narvānar), प्राइमेट m (prāimeṭ)
- Hungarian: főemlős (hu)
- Icelandic: prímati m, fremdardýr n
- Indonesian: primata (id)
- Italian: primati m (plurale tantum), primate (it)
- Japanese: 霊長類 (ja) (れいちょうるい, reichōrui) (collective)
- Kazakh: примат (primat)
- Korean: 영장류(靈長類) (yeongjangnyu) (collective), 령장류(靈長類) (ryeongjangnyu) (North Korea, collective)
- Kyrgyz: примат (primat)
- Latvian: primāts m
- Lithuanian: primatas (lt) m
- Macedonian: прима́т m (primát)
- Malay: primat
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: primat (oc) m
- Ottoman Turkish: میمون (maymun)
- Persian: نخستیسان (noxosti-sân), نخستی (noxosti)
- Polish: naczelny (pl) m
- Portuguese: primata (pt) m
- Romanian: primat (ro) n
- Russian: прима́т (ru) m (primát)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: primát m
- Slovene: prvak (sl) m, primat m
- Spanish: primate (es) m
- Swedish: primat (sv) c
- Tajik: примат (primat)
- Tatar: примат (primat)
- Thai: ไพรเมต (prai-mèet)
- Turkish: primat (tr)
- Turkmen: primat
- Ukrainian: прима́т (uk) m (prymát)
- Uzbek: primat
- Vietnamese: động vật có tay, động vật linh trưởng
- Yiddish: פּרימאַט m (primat)
From Middle English primate, primat, from Old French primat, from Late Latin prīmās (“chief bishop”), substantivisation of prīmās, an alternative form of prīmus (“prime, first rank”). Compare English primus, of similar derivation and meaning. First attested in c. 1200.
primate (plural primates)
- (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
The Archbishop of Quebec is the primate of Canada.
- (ecclesiastical) In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
- (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
archbishop or bishop
- Bulgarian: архиепи́скоп m (arhiepískop) (archbishop)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: primaat (nl) m
- Finnish: priimas (fi)
- French: primat (fr) m
- German: Primat (de) m, Primas (de) m
- Hungarian: prímás (hu)
- Italian: primate (it) m
- Japanese: 大主教 (ja) (だいしゅきょう, daishukyō)
- Korean: 대주교(大主敎) (daejugyo)
- Latin: prīmās (la) m
- Manx: ard-aspick m
- Maori: pīhopa mātāmua, paraimete
- Polish: prymas (pl) m
- Portuguese: primado (pt) m
- Romanian: primat (ro) n
- Russian: архиепи́скоп (ru) m (arxijepískop) (archbishop), епи́скоп (ru) m (jepískop) (bishop), прима́с (ru) m (primás)
- Spanish: primado (es) m
- Vietnamese: tổng giám mục (vi)
primate m (plural primates)
- primate (mammal)
- “primate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
primate m (plural primates)
- primate (animal)
primate m (plural primati)
- primate (ecclesiastical title)
- primati (mammals) (plurale tantum)
- primato (primacy)
primate (Cyrillic spelling примате)
Borrowed from Latin prīmātem (“first, principal; hero”).
primate m (plural primates)
- primate (animal)
primate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of primar combined with te
- “primate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014