"primordial" meaning in English

See primordial in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/ [UK], /pɹaɪˈmɔɹ.di.əl/ [US], /pɹɑɪˈmoː.di.əl/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-uk-primordial.ogg , En-us-primordial.ogg
Etymology: From the Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”). Compare primordium and -al. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|prīmōrdiālis||of the beginning}} Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} primordial (not comparable)
  1. First, earliest or original. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Time Translations (earliest): първоначален (pǎrvonačalen) (Bulgarian), най-ранен (naj-ranen) (Bulgarian), primordial (Catalan), 原始的 (yuánshǐ de) (Chinese Mandarin), oorspronkelijk (Dutch), oer- (Dutch), alku- (Finnish), alkuperäinen (Finnish), primordial (French), primordial [feminine, masculine] (Galician), დასაბამიერი (dasabamieri) (Georgian), პირველყოფილი (ṗirvelq̇opili) (Georgian), თავდაპირველი (tavdaṗirveli) (Georgian), ოდინდელი (odindeli) (Georgian), ursprünglich (German), Ur- (German), Frühzeit- (German), primordial (German), αρχέγονος (archégonos) [masculine] (Greek), πρωταρχικός (protarchikós) [masculine] (Greek), בְּרֵאשִׁיתִי (bereshití) [masculine] (Hebrew), ősi (Hungarian), frum- (Icelandic), upprunalegur [masculine] (Icelandic), upphafs- (Icelandic), primordiale (Italian), 原初の (gensho no) (alt: げんしょの) (Japanese), әдепкі (ädepkı) (Kazakh), pierwotny [masculine] (Polish), początkowy (Polish), primordial (Portuguese), изнача́льный (iznačálʹnyj) (Russian), primordial (Spanish), ursprunglig (Swedish), esasî (Turkish), ilk (Turkish), kökensel (Turkish), пе́рві́сний (pérvísnyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. (biology) Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Biology, Time
    Sense id: en-primordial-en-adj-VXi-WZHx Disambiguation of Time: 41 33 0 26 0 Topics: biology, natural-sciences
  3. Primeval. Tags: not-comparable
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  4. Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰). Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Geology, Radioactivity, Time
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: primordial black hole, primordial cell, primordial element, primordial fluctuations, primordial phallus, primordial sea, primordial sludge, primordial soup

Noun

IPA: /pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/ [UK], /pɹaɪˈmɔɹ.di.əl/ [US], /pɹɑɪˈmoː.di.əl/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-uk-primordial.ogg , En-us-primordial.ogg Forms: primordials [plural]
Etymology: From the Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”). Compare primordium and -al. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|prīmōrdiālis||of the beginning}} Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} primordial (plural primordials)
  1. A first principle or element. Translations (first principle or element): πρωτογενής (protogenís) [masculine] (Greek)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.