primitiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin primitiae (“first fruits”).

名詞

prīmitia f (genitive prīmitiae); first declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) first fruits
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.519–520:

     farra tamen veterēs iaciēbant, farra metēbant,
     prīmitiās Cererī farra resecta dabant.

     Literal translation:
     Yet ancient [peoples] were sowing grains, [and] grains they were harvesting;
     [and,] having been reaped, the first-fruits [of these] grains they were giving to Ceres.
     Or, in more natural English:
     Yet the ancients were sowing and reaping grain crops, offering the first-fruits of their harvests to Ceres.
     (Note: Far, plural farra, is commonly mis-translated; see also Ceres (mythology).)