principe
See also: Principe, príncipe, and Príncipe
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French principe, from Latin principium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌprɪnˈsi.pə/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pe
- Rhymes: -ipə
Noun
principe n (plural principes, diminutive principetje n)
- principle [from late 18th c.]
- Synonym: beginsel
Derived terms
- coöperatieprincipe
Related terms
- principieel
Descendants
- Afrikaans: prinsipe
- → Indonesian: prinsip
- → West Frisian: prinsipe
Esperanto
Etymology
From principo (“principle”) + -e (adverbial ending).
Adverb
principe
- in principle
French
Etymology
From Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɛ̃.sip/
Audio (file)
Noun
principe m (plural principes)
- principle
- beginning; start; commencement
- dès le principe ― from the outset; from the start
- (somewhat archaic) source; origin; cause
- 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 2:
- Le principe de toute souveraineté réside essentiellement dans la nation.
- The source of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.
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Derived terms
- en principe
- par principe
- partir du principe
- pétition de principe
Descendants
- → Danish: princip
- → Dutch: principe
- Afrikaans: prinsipe
- → Indonesian: prinsip
- → West Frisian: prinsipe
- → Norwegian Bokmål: prinsipp
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: prinsipp
- → Turkish: prensip
Further reading
- “principe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin prīncipem (“chief”) (compare principio (“principle”) from the meaning "first").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprin.t͡ʃi.pe/
- Rhymes: -intʃipe
- Hyphenation: prìn‧ci‧pe
Noun
principe m (plural principi, feminine principessa)
- prince
Related terms
- prence
- principale
- principato
- principesco
- principio
Latin
Noun
prī̆ncipe
- ablative singular of prī̆nceps
Portuguese
Noun
principe m (plural principes)
- Obsolete spelling of príncipe
Romanian
Etymology
From Italian principe, from Latin princeps.
Noun
principe m (plural principi)
- principle
Declension
Declension of principe
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) principe | principeul | (niște) principi | principii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) principe | principeului | (unor) principi | principilor |
| vocative | principeule | principilor | ||
Spanish
Noun
principe
- Misspelling of príncipe.
Verb
principe
- inflection of principar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative