Pronounced: TREN-chuhnt, adj
Notes: Not quite what I thought (but at least I pronounced it correctly)
Yesterday’s word
The word imprimis means “in the first place”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1400s
Background / Comment
For some reason, I thought that our word had to do with books. It is a contraction of the Latin phrase in primis (among the first), which is composed of in (among) and primus (first). Originally, the word introduced the first item in a list. As an oddity, note that this word only contains the vowel ‘i’.
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