primum mobile
nounEtymology
From Middle English primum mobile (“outermost celestial sphere causing other spheres to move”), borrowed from Medieval Latin prīmum mōbile (literally “first mover”), a calque of Arabic مُحَرِّك أَوَّل (muḥarrik ʔawwal, “first mover”), which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek τὸ πρῶτον κινῆσαν (tò prôton kinêsan, “prime mover”).
- derived from prīmum mōbile
Definitions
The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed…
The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner spheres to rotate.
- Dante [Alighieri] now mounts up from the Heaven of the fixed stars to the Primum Mobile, or Crystalline Heaven.
The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects…
The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action
The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action; a driving force.
- The great wheels, the primum mobiles, that have gone so violently and brought us into this confusion, I move that you will proceed against them, and that the king's gracious intentions may have farther effect, and those only excepted.
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