principalmente
Galician
Etymology
principal + -mente
Adverb
principalmente
- mainly
- principally
Related terms
- principal
Italian
Etymology
From principale + -mente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prin.t͡ʃi.palˈmen.te/
- Rhymes: -ente
- Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pal‧mén‧te
Adverb
principalmente
- (archaic) in the first place, firstly
- c. 13th century, Ricordano Malespini, “Come Nino signoreggiò tutto el mondo, et come Appollonio se edificare Fiesole [How Ninus ruled the whole world, and how Apollonius was able to build Fiesole]”, in Historia antica, published 1568, page 2:
- Dico principalmente che da Adamo insino a Nino Re, […] si fue anni dumila trecento quaranta quattro.
- Firstly I say that, from Adam to King Ninus, there were two-thousand three-hundred forty-four years
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- mainly
- Synonym: soprattutto
- principally
Portuguese
Etymology
principal + -mente
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾĩ.siˌpawˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/ [pɾĩ.siˌpaʊ̯ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾĩ.siˌpawˈmẽ.te/ [pɾĩ.siˌpaʊ̯ˈmẽ.te]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾĩ.siˌpalˈmẽ.t(ɨ)/ [pɾĩ.siˌpaɫˈmẽ.t(ɨ)]
- Rhymes: -ẽtɨ, -ẽt͡ʃi
- Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pal‧men‧te
Adverb
principalmente
- principally, mainly
- Synonym: mormente
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:principalmente.
Spanish
Etymology
From principal + -mente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾinˌθipalˈmente/ [pɾĩn̟ˌθi.palˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾinˌsipalˈmente/ [pɾĩnˌsi.palˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: prin‧ci‧pal‧men‧te
Adverb
principalmente
- mainly
- principally
Related terms
- principal
- principio
- príncipe
Further reading
- “principalmente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014