primal的词源

英文词源

primal (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
c. 1600, "belonging to the earliest age," from Medieval Latin primalis "primary," from Latin primus "first" (see prime (adj.)). Psychological sense, in reference to Freud's theory of behaviors springing from the earliest stage of emotional development, is attested from 1918. Primal scream is from a best-selling book of 1971.

中文词源

primal:原始的,最初的

来自prime,第一的,最初的,首要的,-al,形容词后缀。

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