c. 1600, "belonging to the earliest age," from Medieval Latin primalis "primary," from Latin primus "first" (see prime (adj.)). Psychological sense, in reference to Freud's theory of behaviors springing from the earliest stage of emotional development, is attested from 1918. Primal scream is from a best-selling book of 1971.
例文
1. Money was a primal necessity to them.
彼らにとって、お金は主な需要です。
2.He was the primal traitor,the earliest defiler of the Party 's purity.
彼は最大の裏切り者で、最初に党の純潔を汚した。
3.Jealousy is a primal emotion.
嫉妬は最も原始的な感情である。
4.This India,the primal ,has heen depressed.
原始の古代インドは凹んでいた。
5.Stars are born from a kind of primal soup known as the interstellar medium.