foremost
意味
- 第一流の,主要な
- 第一番に,まっ先に
例文
He is the foremost authority on heart surgery.
彼は心臓外科の第一人者だ。
I told it to my mother first and foremost.
私は真っ先に母にそれを告げた。
First and foremost, watch what you eat.
何よりもまず、食事に気をつけなさい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Old English formest, fyrmest (“earliest, first, most prominent”), from Proto-Germanic *frumistaz, from the locative stem *fur-, *fr- + the superlative suffix *-umistaz, stem ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pr-. The suffix *-umistaz was a compound suffix, created from the rarer comparative suffix *-umô (as in Old English fruma) + the regular superlative suffix *-istaz (English -est); *-umô in turn is from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-. Cognate with Old Frisian formest, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (frumists). See for, first and Old English fruma for more. Partially cognate to primus, from Proto-Indo-European *pr- + Latin superlative suffix -imus, from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-.