principial

English

Adjective

principial (comparative more principial, superlative most principial)

1. elementary; fundamental.
   • 1620, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum:

     On account of heat being kindled by the attrition of bodies, reject a principial nature . By principial nature I mean that which exists in the nature of things positively , and not as the effect of any antecedent nature .

   • 2003, Reiner Schürmann, Broken Hegemonies, page 274:

     My only aim will be to trace the dislocating work of the two conditions that ensue, namely, the principial condition over which the foundation presides and the ground as the originary condition.

   • 2011, David Gibson, Reading the Decree:

     The latter, a principial christocentrism, may include the monergistic view of salvation, but it will also assume that Christ is the principium cognoscendi theologiae or, in Kickel's phrase the Erkenntnissgrund of theology.

Romanian

Etymology

From principiu +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prin.t͡ʃi.piˈal/

Adjective

principial m or n (feminine singular principială, masculine plural principiali, feminine and neuter plural principiale)

1. principled

Declension

Declension of principial

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	principial		principială	principiali	principiale
	definite	principialul		principiala	principialii	principialele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	principial		principiale	principiali	principiale
	definite	principialului		principialei	principialilor	principialelor

Further reading

• principial in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)