primitive

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/

形容詞

古風

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first. / Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.

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The primitive artifacts discovered in the valley offer rare insights into daily life at the dawn of human history.

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意味（1）

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.

primitive innocence; the primitive church

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意味（2）

Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.

a primitive style of dress

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意味（3）

Crude, obsolete.

primitive ideas

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意味（4）

(grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.

a primitive verb

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意味（5）

(biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.

意味（6）

(mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type

意味（7）

(linguistics, dated) most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of

We infer that other groups of related languages, such as the Germanic (or the Slavic or the Celtic), which show a similar resemblance, have arisen in the same way; it is only an accident of history that for these groups we have no written records of the earlier state of the language, as it was spoken before the differentiation set in. To these unrecorded languages we give names like Primitive Germanic (Primitive Slavic, Primitive Celtic, and so on).

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