principle

Etymology
From, from , from , from. ; the former ultimately from ; see also.

Noun

 * 1) A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
 * 2) A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
 * 3)  Moral rule or aspect.
 * 4)  A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
 * 5) A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
 * 6) A chemical compound within plant or animal tissue that is characteristic of it and more or less peculiar to it, such that it defines the character of that tissue from a human viewpoint (as for example nicotine in tobacco).
 * 7) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
 * 8) An original faculty or endowment.
 * 9)  A beginning.
 * 1)  A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
 * 2) A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
 * 3) A chemical compound within plant or animal tissue that is characteristic of it and more or less peculiar to it, such that it defines the character of that tissue from a human viewpoint (as for example nicotine in tobacco).
 * 4) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
 * 5) An original faculty or endowment.
 * 6)  A beginning.
 * 1) A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
 * 2) A chemical compound within plant or animal tissue that is characteristic of it and more or less peculiar to it, such that it defines the character of that tissue from a human viewpoint (as for example nicotine in tobacco).
 * 3) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
 * 4) An original faculty or endowment.
 * 5)  A beginning.
 * 1) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
 * 2) An original faculty or endowment.
 * 3)  A beginning.
 * 1) An original faculty or endowment.
 * 2)  A beginning.
 * 1)  A beginning.
 * 1)  A beginning.
 * 1)  A beginning.

Usage notes

 * Principle ("moral rule"), as a noun, is often confused with, which can be an adjective ("most important") or a noun ("school principal"). A memory aid to avoid this confusion is: "The principal alphabetic principle places A before E". Another well-known one often taught to schoolchildren is that the school principal is their pal (friend).

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَبْدَأ,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: principiu
 * Azerbaijani: prinsip
 * Belarusian: пры́нцып
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: princip
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Estonian: põhimõte,
 * Finnish: perusoletus, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: პრინციპი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: जड़सूत्र,, क़ायदा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: lögmál, prinsipp
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қағида,, ұстаным
 * Khmer:, មូលភាព
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, ынаным
 * Lao: ຫລັກ,, ຫຼັກການ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: princips
 * Lithuanian: principas
 * Luxembourgish: Prinzip
 * Macedonian: принцип
 * Malay: prinsip
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: mātāpono
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: تمل
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: prionnsabal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: прѝнцӣп
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: zásada, princíp
 * Slovene: princip,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: simulain
 * Tajik: принтсип, асос, усул, қоида
 * Thai:, , , ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:,  (原則)
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: פּרינציפּ


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: принцип,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: prinsipp
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: prionnsabal
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: simulain
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Estonian: põhimõte
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: prinsipp
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,  行動指針
 * Kazakh:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بیرو باوەر
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: mātāpono
 * Middle English: comaundement
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: prinsipp
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: prionnsabal
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: simulain
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: principo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: prinsipp
 * Ottoman Turkish: قاعده
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: prionnsabal
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: simulain
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.