principio
Translation
s.m.
› (comienzo)
⇨ beginning
Tienes que pagar al principio de la autopista You have to pay at the beginning of the motorway
⇨ start
⇨ outset
Le dije desde el principio que no me interesaba I told him from the outset I wasn't interested
⇨ inception form
› (norma de conducta)
⇨ principle
› (idea de una doctrina)
⇨ principle
los principios de la física moderna the principles of modern physics
⇨ tenet form
al principio
⇨ at first
⇨ initially
⇨ to begin with
a principios de
⇨ at the beginning of
de principio a fin
⇨ throughout
⇨ from beginning to end
de principios (una persona)
⇨ principled
desde el principio
⇨ from the outset
en principio
⇨ in principle
en un principio
⇨ originally
⇨ initially
(Definition of principio s.m. from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact Español-Inglés
© Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)
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