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|lshtext=<b>prīmordĭus</b>: a, um, adj. [[primus]]-[[ordior]],<br /><b>I</b> [[original]] ([[post]]-Aug.): primordii seminis mistu, Col. 6, 37, 7 dub. (al. primordiis seminum).—Hence, as subst.: prīmor-dĭum, n., and [[more]] [[usually]] plur.: prī-mordĭa (gen. not in [[use]]; principiorum takes its [[place]], Munro ad Lucr. 3, 262; separated and transposed, ordĭa prīma, Lucr. 4, 28), n.<br /><b>I</b> The [[first]] beginnings, [[origin]], [[commencement]] ([[class]].; syn.: [[principium]], [[initium]]): [[primordia]] rerum, Cic. Part. 2, 7: a Jove Musarum [[primordia]], id. poët. Leg. 2, 3, 7: mundi, Ov. M. 15, 67: gentis, Luc. 10, 177: veterum vocum, Pers. 6, 3: inquieta a primordiis [[vita]], Sen. Brev. Vit. 6, 1: artis, Lact. 12, 10, 3: eloquentiae, Tac. Or. 12; Gell. 12, 1, 9; 17; Lact. 3, 29, 16; Just. 31, 5, 7: dicendi, Quint. 1, 9, 1: terrena, Col. 3, 10, 10: mundi, Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 4, 1: in primordiis, Pall. 4, 12.—In <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>: a primordio urbis, Liv. init.; Col. 1, 1: in operum suorum primordio [[stare]], in the [[first]] [[beginning]], Curt. 9, 2, 11; Just. 2, 1: tam tenues primordio imperi fuere fines, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 56.—<br /><b>II</b> Absol., the [[beginning]] of a [[new]] [[reign]], Tac. A. 1, 7.