PRIME Copy link • PRIME 1. s. Best of anything, flos [Vid: FLOWER.] To be in the prime, florere: the prime of life, aetas florens or optima; setatis flos: to be in the prime of life, in flore aetatis esse; aetate florere: to be yet in the prime of life, integra esse aetate: to die in the prime of youth, in flore primo juvenis exstinctus est aliquis; in flore aetatis eripi rebus humanis. Beginning, Vid: Morning, Vid: The first canonical hour, *prima hora, or prima only, from context. 2. adj., Vid. FIRST, BEEST. 3. v. To put powder into the pan of a gun, *pulverem pyrium in scutulam or receptaculum infundere, injicere. In painting, *primis coloribus imbuere.