English
primitively
From primitive + -ly.
A compound of primitive + -ly
Proto-Italic *prīzmos ‘foremost, first’
Latin prīmus ‘first’
Latin prīmitīvus ‘first or earliest of its kind’
Old French primitif
Middle English primitif
English primitive
Today it means
adv In a primitive manner.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “primitively”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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