elementary

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
2. Very simple.
3. Relating to an elementary school.
4. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
5. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
6. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
7. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
8. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
9. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
10. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
11. (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.

Noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of elementary school.
2. (countable) A supernatural being associated with the elements.

Concepts

élémentaire

primaire

rudimentaire

basique

pur

facile

simple

Synonymes

primary

basic

elemental

fundamental

simple

initial

rudimentary

first

1st

beginning

primer

abecedarian

at the beginning

uncomplicated

preliminary

unproblematic

essential

obvious

open-and-shut

plain

preparatory

primal

primordial

run-of-the-mill

simplified

soft

tentative

undemanding

underlying

vanilla

working

truistic

all-encompassing

basal

cardinal

constitutive

cushy

easy

facile

fiducial

grassroots

inchoate

initiative

introduction

lower

material

no-frills

Traductions

elementare

elemental

elementar

στοιχειώδης

elementar

elementair

grundlegend

rudimentar

básico

basit

seretayî

elemental

bàsic

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/(ˌ)ɛlɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à français: élémentaire

In summary

From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary.

Phrases

He served as Professor of Elementary and Secondary Education .

Il a été professeur d'éducation élémentaire et secondaire.