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==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|primative||obsolete}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|primitif}}, from {{der|en|fro|primitif}}, from {{der|en|la|prīmitīvus||first or earliest of its kind}}, from {{m|la|prīmus|t=first}}; see [[prime]]. {{doublet|en|primitivo}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-primitive.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪmɪtɪv|s=3}}
* {{hyph|en|prim|i|tive}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|linguistics}} An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to {{m|en|derivative}}.
# A [[member]] of a primitive [[society]].
# A simple-minded [[person]].
# {{lb|en|programming}} A [[data type]] that is built into the [[programming language]], as opposed to more complex structures.
# {{lb|en|programming}} Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a [[programming language]].<ref>{{w|Language_primitive|Page on the English Wikipedia}}</ref>
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2021|author=Arti Noor; Abhijit Sen; Gaurav Trivedi|title=Proceedings of Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems: ETTIS 2021|page=26
|passage=A [[write-what-where]] '''primitive''' allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory}}
# A basic [[geometric]] shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
# {{lb|en|mathematics}} A function whose [[derivative]] is a given function; an [[antiderivative]]. {{C|en|Functions}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|word}} primitive word, [[radical]], radical word

====Derived terms====
* [[modern primitive]]

====Translations====
{{trans-top|linguistics: word not derived from another}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kantasana}}
* French: {{t+|fr|primitif|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Wortstamm}} & {{t+|de|Stamm}}, {{t+|de|Stammwort}}, {{t+|de|Urwort}}, {{t|de|ursprüngliches Wort}}, {{t|de|Wurzelwort}}, {{t+|de|Wortwurzel}} & {{t+|de|Wurzel}}; {{t|de|Primitivum}}, {{t|de|Radicalwort}}, {{t|de|Radix}}
* Latin: {{t|la|primitivum|n}}, {{t|la|vocabulum primitivum|n}}, {{t|la|vox primitiva|f}}, {{t|la|radix|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|примити́в|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|primitivo|m}}
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{{trans-top|member from a primitive society}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[alkukantainen]] [[ihminen]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|primitif|m}}, {{t+|fr|primitive|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|πρωτόγονος|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|primitivo|m}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|первобы́тный челове́к|m}}
* Turkish: {{t|tr|ilkel insan}}
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{{trans-top|simple-minded person}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|примитив|m}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[yksinkertainen]] [[ihminen]]}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|primitivo|m}}
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{{trans-top|computing: data type}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|primitiivi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|primitive|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|αρχέγονος|m}}, {{t+|el|αρχέγονος τύπος δεδομένων|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|prymityw|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|primitiva|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|примити́в|m}}
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{{trans-top|computing: simplest elements}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|primitiva komando}}
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{{trans-see|mathematics: function|antiderivative}}

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* Catalan: {{t+check|ca|primitiu|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+check|cmn|原始|tr=yuanshi}}
* Dutch: {{t+check|nl|primitief}}
* French: {{t+check|fr|primitif}}
* Italian: {{t+check|it|primitivo|s}}, {{t+check|it|primitivi|p}}
* Japanese: {{t+check|ja|原始|tr=げんし, genshi}}
* Korean: {{t+check|ko|원시}}
* Spanish: {{t+check|es|primitivo|m}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|ilkel}}
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===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; [[original]]; [[primordial]]; [[primeval]]; first.
#: {{ux|en|'''primitive''' innocence; &nbsp; the '''primitive''' church}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1895|author=Edmund Montgomery|title=The Monist|chapter=To Be Alive, What is it?| passage=it is from such primitive beings that the highest organisms now extant are the marvellously developed descendants}}
# Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; [[old-fashioned]]; characterized by simplicity.
#: {{syn|en|backwards}}
#: {{ux|en|a '''primitive''' style of dress}}
## Relating to an art style characterized by [[asymmetrical]] shapes and faded colors.
##: {{usex|en|I used '''primitive''' hearts to decorate the quilt.}}
#* {{RQ:Travers Cuckoo in the Nest|chapter=4|passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of '''primitive''' Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1951|month=August|title=The Why and the Wherefore: The West Sussex Railway|journal=Railway Magazine|page=573|text=The intermediate stations were of the '''most primitive''' type.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Mircea Eliade|tlr=Willard R. Trask| chapter=Introduction|title=The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion| series=Harvest Book|seriesvolume=HB 144|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt, Brace & World]]| year=1959| page=11| isbn=978-0-15-679201-1| passage=It could be said that the history of religions—from the most '''primitive''' to the most highly developed—is constituted by a great number of hierophanies, by manifestations of sacred realities.}}
# [[crude|Crude]], [[obsolete]].
#: {{ux|en|'''primitive''' ideas}}
# {{lb|en|grammar}} Original; primary; radical; not derived.
#: {{syn|en|radical}}
#: {{ant|en|derivative|derived}}
#: {{ux|en|a '''primitive''' verb}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1831|author=Noah Webster|title=Rudiments of English Grammar; Being an Abridgment of the Improved Grammar of the English Language|publisher=New-Haven|page=6
|passage=''Division of words.'' Words are '''primitive''' or radical, and derivative or compound.<br>''Of '''primitive''' words.'' '''Primitive''' or radical words are such as cannot be divided, or separated into parts which are significant; as ''man, hope, bless''.}}
# {{lb|en|biology}} Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or [[evolution]].
# {{lb|en|maths}} Not [[derived]] from another of the same type
#: {{syn|en|imprimitive}}
# {{lb|en|linguistics|dated}} most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of
#: {{syn|en|proto-}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1933|author=w:Leonard Bloomfield|title=Language|publisher=Henry Holt|page=13
|passage=We infer that other groups of related languages, such as the Germanic (or the Slavic or the Celtic), which show a similar resemblance, have arisen in the same way; it is only an accident of history that for these groups we have no written records of the earlier state of the language, as it was spoken before the differentiation set in. To these unrecorded languages we give names like '''''Primitive''' Germanic'' ('''''Primitive''' Slavic'', '''''Primitive''' Celtic'', and so on).}}

====Derived terms====
{{der3|en|AADAOPA|primitive colour|primitive concept|primitive element|primitive notion|primitive polynomial|primitive recursion|primitive recursive|primitive root|primitive streak|primitive type|primitive wrapper class|multiprimitive|primitive art|Primitive Irish|primitiveness| primitive reflex}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|prymitywny}}
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====Translations====
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* Armenian: {{t+|hy|պարզունակ}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|bəsit}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|прыміты́ўны}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|прост}}, {{t+|bg|примитивен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|primitiu}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|原始|tr=yuánshǐ}}
* Cornish: {{t|kw|sempel}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|primitivní}}
* Danish: {{t|da|primitiv}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|primitief}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|primitiva}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|alkeellinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|primitif}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|primitivo}}
* German: {{t+|de|ursprünglich}}, {{t+|de|primitiv}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|πρωτόγονος}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|primitív}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|primitivo}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|原始的|tr=げんしてき, genshiteki}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|원시}}
* Latin: {{t|la|primitivus}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|primitivo|m}}, {{t|pt|primitiva|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|primitiv}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|примити́вный}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|prȉmitīvan}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|primitivo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|primitiv}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|baruwang}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|приміти́вний}}
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===References===
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==French==

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}

===Etymology 1===
{{nonlemma}}

====Adjective====
{{head|fr|adjective form}}

# {{feminine singular of|fr|primitif}}

===Etymology 2===
{{ellipsis|fr|[[fonction]] primitive}}.

====Noun====
{{fr-noun|f}}

# {{lb|fr|mathematics}} [[antiderivative]]
#: {{cot|fr|dérivée}}

====See also====
* {{l|fr|intégrale}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

==German==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|de|De-primitive.ogg}}

===Adjective===
{{head|de|adjective form}}

# {{de-adj form of|primitiv}}

==Italian==

===Adjective===
{{head|it|adjective form}}

# {{adj form of|it|primitivo||f|p}}

==Latin==

===Adjective===
{{head|la|adjective form|head=prīmitīve}}

# {{inflection of|la|prīmitīvus||voc|m|s}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==

===Adjective===
{{head|nb|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|nb|primitiv||def|s}}
# {{plural of|nb|primitiv}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Adjective===
{{head|nn|adjective form}}

# {{inflection of|nn|primitiv||def|s}}
# {{plural of|nn|primitiv}}