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名詞

principia pl (normally plural, singular principium)

1. (archaic) First principles; elementary material.
   • 1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith

     I do really think, that your book […] might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act […]

   • 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barbara S⁠——”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 116:

     They were her principia, her rudiments; the elementary atoms; the little steps by which she pressed forward to perfection.

関連する語

• principial

名詞

prī̆ncipia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of prī̆ncipium

参照

• "principia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “principia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “principia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin