principia

principia is a Latin form of principium, meaning “beginning, origin; (principio) in the first place, at first”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or vocative plural neuter noun or accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 123 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 12.9: … tinendi principatum tenet. Gallia D. Bruti nutum ipsum, ne dicam imperium, secuta armis, viris, pecunia belli principia firmavit; eadem crudelitati M. Antoni suum totum corpus obiecit; exhauritur, vastatur, uritur: omnis aequo an …

Jerome, Epistolae 127.1: SAEPE et multum flagitas, virgo Christi Principia, ut memoriam sanctae feminae Marcellae litteris recolam et bonum, quo diu fruiti sumus, etiam ceteris noscend …

All forms of principium (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.