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† ˈprim-print Obs.
Also 6 prymprynt, 6–8 prime(-)print.
[Derivation unknown.
Appears too early to be connected with prim a. The first element has been conjectured to be F. prime, L. prīm-us first, and the second short for F. printemps spring; but for this there is no confirmatory evidence, nor is the sense probable. (The statement in Prior's Pop. Names of Plants that prim-print was orig. the primrose, and that the name was transferred from the herb to the shrub, is erroneous, and arises from the fact that ligustrum, in Pliny the privet, has been supposed by some to be in Virgil and Ovid the name of some white-flowered herb.)]
An early name of the Privet.
1548Turner Names of Herbes E j b, Ligustrum is called in greke Cypros, in englishe Prim print or priuet, though Eliote more boldely then lernedly, defended the contrary [cf. quot. 1542 s.v. privet1 1]. 1562― Herbal ii. 36 b, The herbe which is called..prymprynt or pryuet. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. xxv. 690 This plant is called in..English, Priuet, or Primprint, in Frenche, Troesne. 1598Florio, Ligustro, the priuet or prime print tree vsed in gardens for hedges. Also a kind of white floure. 1674–5in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 642 Two thousand two hundred of Quicksetts and Prim-print. 1749J. Martyn tr. Virg. Bucol. ii. 18 note, If the Ligustrum of Pliny was that..by us called privet or primprint. |