principe

From Italian principe. Doublet of prince and princeps.

principe (plural principi)

1. An Italian prince.

   Coordinate term: principessa

• prencipe

Borrowed from Latin prīncipem.

• IPA^(key): /pɾinˈθipe/
• IPA^(key): /pɾinˈsipe/ (Benasquese)
• Syllabification: prin‧ci‧pe
• Rhymes: -ipe

principe m

1. prince

   Synonym: infant

2. sovereign, ruler

   Synonym: monarca

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Inherited from Spanish príncipe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾinsipe/, [ˈpɾĩn.si.pe]
• Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pe

principe

1. prince

• princesa

Borrowed from French principe, from Latin principium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌprɪnˈsi.pə/

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• Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pe
• Rhymes: -ipə

principe n (plural principes, diminutive principetje n)

1. principle [from late 18th c.]

   Synonym: beginsel

• principieel

• Afrikaans: prinsipe
• → Indonesian: prinsip
• → West Frisian: prinsipe

• “principe” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

From principo (“principle”) +‎ -e (adverbial ending).

• IPA^(key): /prinˈt͡sipe/
• Rhymes: -ipe
• Hyphenation: prin‧ci‧pe

principe

1. in principle

Inherited from Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ̃.sip/

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principe m (plural principes)

1. principle
2. beginning; start; commencement

   dès le principe ― from the outset; from the start

3. (somewhat archaic) source; origin; cause
   • 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 2:

     Le principe de toute souveraineté réside essentiellement dans la nation.

     The source of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.

• en principe
• par principe
• partir du principe
• pétition de principe

• → Danish: princip
• → Dutch: principe
  • Afrikaans: prinsipe
  • → Indonesian: prinsip
  • → West Frisian: prinsipe
• → Norwegian Bokmål: prinsipp
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: prinsipp
• → Turkish: prensip

• “principe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• prencipe

From Latin prīncipem (“chief”) (compare principio (“principle”) from the meaning "first").

• IPA^(key): /ˈprin.t͡ʃi.pe/
• Rhymes: -intʃipe
• Hyphenation: prìn‧ci‧pe

principe m (plural principi, feminine principessa, diminutive principino, augmentative principóne)

1. prince

• prence
• principale
• principato
• principesco
• principio

• principe in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• principe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

prī̆ncipe

1. ablative singular of prī̆nceps

principe m (plural principes)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of príncipe.

Borrowed from Italian principe, from Latin princeps.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprin.t͡ʃi.pe/

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principe m (plural principi)

1. prince

• “principe”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

principe

1. misspelling of príncipe

principe

1. inflection of principar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative