One way to picture it: something still standing at the first stage — before the layers that came later were added on.
From the word’s history
From Latin prīmitīvus 'first or earliest of its kind', from prīmus 'first' — the same root as prime and primary.
來自拉丁文 prīmitīvus（同類中最早的），字根是 prīmus（第一），和 prime、primary、primary school 同一家族。認出 prim- = 第一，這個字的每個用法就都能回到「還在第一階」這個位置上。
Wiktionary（primitive 詞條）：From Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus ("first or earliest of its kind"), from prīmus ("first")。
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
primitivenoun/ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesAn original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
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A member of a primitive society.
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Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- It may be that, living among primitive surroundings, the dormant primitive deep within the white man is drawn towards the absolute primitive in the aboriginal.
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Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- Out there in the primitive, white-man Rust had made his tools out of the primitive, as these stone-age people were making excellent string from the primitive.
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A simple-minded person.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAny of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory
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A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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mathematicssciencesA function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
primitiveadj/ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/
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Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- primitive innocence; the primitive church
- it is from such primitive beings that the highest organisms now extant are the marvellously developed descendants
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Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- a primitive style of dress
- 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.
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Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- I used primitive hearts to decorate the quilt.
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Crude, obsolete.
- primitive ideas
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsOriginal; primary; radical; not derived.
- a primitive verb
- The primitive root in "children" is "child."
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datedbiologynatural-sciencesOccurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
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mathematicssciencesNot derived from another of the same type
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datedhuman-scienceslinguisticssciencesmost recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of
- 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).
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