primicesn.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman primicies, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French primices, Middle French, French †premices, French prémices first-fruits, firstborn (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), (figurative) beginnings (1669), first enjoyment (e.g. of love) (1762), virginity (1791 (in de Sade: compare quot. 1982) or earlier) < classical Latin prīmitiae , prīmiciae primitiae n.; in French forms with initial pre- apparently influenced by Old French, Middle French premisse and its etymon post-classical Latin praemissa (see premise n.).Compare Old Occitan primicies, premicias (both plural nouns: late 13th cent.; Occitan premícias), Catalan primícia (1250 or earlier), (now usually) primícies, plural noun (late 14th cent. or earlier), Spanish primicia (c1200 or earlier), primicias, plural noun (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier), †premicias, plural noun (c1400 or earlier), Portuguese primícias, plural noun (1209), Italian primizia (11th cent. as †primitia; now historical in this sense; now usually in sense ‘first fruit of the season’), and also Old Occitan primizie right of the village priest to receive a share of the first-fruits (1179). Compare also Middle Dutch, Dutch primicien, Middle Low German prīmicien, both plural nouns. In form premities after the classical Latin form.