prémices
See also: premices
French
Etymology
Borrowed from ecclesiastical Latin primitiae, with change of first vowel after praemissa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁe.mis/
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Noun
prémices f pl (plural only)
- (literary) first fruits, primitiae
- (literary) signs, auguries
- Vous avez eu les prémices de son coeur.
- You were the first to win over her heart.
- (figuratively) beginning, start
Further reading
- “prémices”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.