Home › Words › P › primusprimus/ˈpɹaɪməs/primus means one of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.primus is pronounced /ˈpɹaɪməs/.EtymologyFrom Latin prīmus (“[the] first”); related to prior, the comparative form. Partially cognate to foremost, from Proto-Indo-European [Term?]. Doublet of prime and primo.nounOne of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.e.g.“1884, Gonzalo Canilla, speech at the Centenary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury my own grandfather, some time Bishop of Edinburgh, among its Primuses”A Primus stove.e.g.“Varya walked past slowly, idly peeping into each of them. There was a vendor of Turkish delight and halvah. A haberdasher's stall. A cobbler. A whitesmith. A repairer of Primuses and oil stoves.” — 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 53:nameA male given name.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.stoveless 60% match — Without a stove. vs primus →cookstove 57% match — A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc. vs primus →cooker 56% match — A cookstove. vs primus →oilstove 54% match — A stove or heater that burns kerosene. vs primus →petromax 53% match — A kind of pressurized paraffin lamp that uses a mantle. vs primus →stovelike 53% match — Resembling or characteristic of a stove. vs primus →primevous 52% match — Primeval, primordial. vs primus →stoveside 52% match — Beside a stove. vs primus →