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principiorum

principiorum is a Latin form of principium, meaning “beginning, origin; (principio) in the first place, at first”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.22: … eles, longe omnibus—Platonem semper excipio—praestans et ingenio et diligentia, cum quattuor nota illa genera principiorum esset complexus, e quibus omnia orerentur, quintam quandam naturam censet esse, e qua sit mens; cogitare enim …

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.