## Meanings
1. Most important; main.
2. Of the best quality or value.
3. Of a number that can only be divided by itself and one.
4. To prepare something for use or action.

## Examples
- Our prime concern is the safety of the children.
- This is a prime location for a new restaurant.
- Seven is a prime number.
- They primed the wall before painting it.

## Synonyms
- morning

## Antonyms
- composite

## Derived Forms
- antiprime
- backprime
- co-prime
- crossprime
- deprime
- interprime
- megaprime
- misprime
- nonprime
- overprime
- primability
- primality

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *per-
- Root: prime
- Root: prīmus
- Root: *priisemos

## Etymology
From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus. The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

## AI Etymology
Prime comes from Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus. The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one. In present-day English it covers most important; main, of the best quality or value, and of a number that can only be divided by itself and one. The wider family includes derived forms such as antiprime, backprime, co-prime, crossprime, deprime.

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