primate

Etymology 1
From, from. So named due to the belief that primates are the “highest” order of mammals/animals. .

Noun

 * 1)  A mammal of the order, including simians and prosimians.
 * 2)  A simian anthropoid; an ape (including human) or monkey.
 * 1)  A simian anthropoid; an ape (including human) or monkey.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:primate



Translations

 * Afrikaans: primaat
 * Albanian: primat
 * Arabic: رئيسي
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: primat
 * Belarusian: прыма́т
 * Bulgarian: прима́т
 * Burmese: ပရိုင်းမိတ်
 * Catalan: primat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 靈長目動物,
 * Czech:, nehetnatec
 * Danish: primat
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: esikloomaline, primaat
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: პრიმატი
 * German:
 * Greek: πρωτεύον
 * Hebrew: פְּרִימָט
 * Hindi: नरवानर, प्राइमेट
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: prímati, fremdardýr
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: primati (plurale tantum),
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: примат
 * Korean: 영장류(靈長類), 령장류(靈長類)
 * Kyrgyz: примат
 * Latvian: primāts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: прима́т
 * Malay: primat
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: primat
 * Nynorsk: primat
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: میمون
 * Persian: نخستی‌سان, نخستی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: прѝма̄т
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: primát
 * Slovene:, primat
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: примат
 * Tatar: примат
 * Thai: ไพรเมต
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: primat
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: primat
 * Vietnamese: động vật có tay, động vật linh trưởng
 * Yiddish: פּרימאַט

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , of , an alternative form of. Compare 🇨🇬, of similar derivation and meaning. .

Noun

 * 1)  In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
 * 2)  In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
 * 3)  In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
 * 1)  In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: архиепи́скоп
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 대주교(大主敎)
 * Latin:
 * Manx: ard-aspick
 * Maori: pīhopa mātāmua, paraimete
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:

Noun

 * 1) primate mammal

Noun

 * 1)  (ecclesiastical title)

Related terms

 * (mammals) (plurale tantum)
 * (primacy)

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  animal