Primus

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹaɪməs/

From Latin Prīmus, from prīmus (“first”).

Primus

1. (dated) A male given name

African-American slaves frequently had given names taken from classical Latin.

From the trademark.

Primus (plural Primuses)

1. A Primus stove
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 53:

     Varya walked past slowly, idly peeping into each of them. There was a vendor of Turkish delight and halvah. A haberdasher's stall. A cobbler. A whitesmith. A repairer of Primuses and oil stoves.

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