Definitions for principium

principium prin·cip·i·um

Spelling: [prin-sip-ee-uh m]
IPA: /prɪnˈsɪp i əm/

Principium is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in principium (ciiimnppru).

Definitions for principium

noun

  1. a principle.

Origin of principium

1575-85; Latin prīncipium literally, that which is first, equivalent to prīncip- (see prince) + -ium -ium

Examples for principium

The initium is pushed out of the way by that which follows; the principium serves as a basis for that which follows.

The principium or perfection of cognition is to be found in the immediate proposition, true per se.

Further, inasmuch as the soul is the principium of mental action, it must be an incorporeal principle existing by itself.

Such a one has broken the fetters of the principium individuationis.

The principium individuationis, with the consequent distinction of individuals, is the order of things in themselves.

For the ultimate perfection of a rational creature lies in that which is the source or principle (principium) of its being.

We cannot directly by sense perceive the Universal, though sense is the principium of the Universal.

Thus, the general rule would be to begin with Homer: a Jove principium.

Aiunt hretici temporis nostri quod duo sunt principia rerum, principium lucis et principium tenebrarum, &c.

He traces back its origin to God himself—ab Jove principium.

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