뜻

1. 시작, 기원
2. 기초, 토대
3. 원소, 요소
4. (군사) 일류, 본부, 사령부

1. a beginning, an origin
2. a groundwork, a foundation
3. (in the plural) the elements, the first principles
4. (military, in the plural) the front ranks, camp headquarters

예문

• Nunc revertar ad propositum et de copiis, quae aptae sunt aedificiorum perfectionibus, quemadmodum videantur esse ab natura rerum procreatae quibusque mixtionibus principiorum congressus temperentur, ne obscura sed perspicua legentibus sint, ratiocinabor. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER SECUNDUS, chapter 1 2:35)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 1장 2:35)

• namque nulla materiarum genera neque corpora neque res sine principiorum coetu nasci neque subici intellectui possunt, neque aliter natura rerum praeceptis physicorum veras patitur habere explicationes, nisi causae, quae insunt in his rebus quemadmodum et quid ita sint, subtilibus rationibus habeant demonstrationes. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER SECUNDUS, chapter 1 2:36)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 1장 2:36)

• namque non potest id robur, quod abies, nec cupressus, quod ulmus, nec cetera easdem habent inter se natura rerum similitates, sed singula genera principiorum proprietatibus comparata alios alii generis praestant in operibus effectus. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER SECUNDUS, chapter 9 10:17)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 9장 10:17)

• Contra vero quercus terrenis principiorum satietatibus abundans parumque habens umoris et aeris et ignis, cum in terrenis operibus obruitur, infinitam habet aeternitatem. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER SECUNDUS, chapter 9 10:24)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 9장 10:24)

• Quantum animo considerare potui, de copiis, quae sunt necessariae in aedificiorum comparationibus, et quibus temperaturis e rerum natura principiorum habere videantur mixtionem quaeque insunt in singulis generibus virtutes et vitia, uti non sint ignota aedificantibus, exposui. (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER SECUNDUS, chapter 10 11:11)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 10장 11:11)

유의어 사전

1. Initium denotes the beginning in an abstract sense, as the mere point from which a thing begins, in opp. to exitus. Cic. Rosc. Com. 13, 39. Tusc. i. 38. Brut. 34. Sen. Ep. 9. N. Q. iii. 29; whereas principium denotes the beginning as a concrete notion, as that part of the whole which stands before the other parts in things, and goes before them in actions, in opp. to extremum. Cic. Cleunt. 4. Orat. 61, 204. Cæc. 15, 44. In initium the beginning is made only with reference to time; in principium the foundation also is laid with reference to space. The initium is pushed out of the way by that which follows; the principium serves as a basis for that which follows. The initia philosophiæ are the rudiments over which the scholar goes, and which are superseded by further studies; the principia are the fundamental principles, to which he must always recur. Initio usually means “at the beginning, but differently (or, not at all) afterwards;” whereas principio means from the very beginning, and so onwards. 2. Primordium is a more solemn and comprehensive term than principium, and supposes a whole of great extent, the beginning of which is so far removed that one can distinguish a merely apparent beginning from the actual and primeval source and origin. (iii. 163.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein