principia

/pɹɪnsˈɪpiə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English

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noun

Archaic

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

Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipia.

principium (singular)

principial

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How do you pronounce principia?

The recorded pronunciation is /pɹɪnsˈɪpiə/.

What does principia mean?

First principles; elementary material.

Where does principia come from?

Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipia.

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