ETYM French original, Latin originalis.
1. Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of.
2. Not derived or copied or translated from something else.
3. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
4. (Of e.g. information) Not secondhand or by way of something intermediary.
ETYM Latin primarius, from primus first: cf. French primaire. Related to Prime, Premier, Primero.
1. Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; SYN. primitive.
2. Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand.
ETYM Latin primordialis, from primordium the first beginning; primus first + ordiri to begin a web, to begin: cf. French primordial.
1. First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin.
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2. (Geology) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
3. Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ.
4. Pertaining to, or having existed from, beginning; in original form; first; primary.
In an original manner.