Adjective

(en adjective)

of or relating to one or more rudiments

I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry .

Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.

His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping .

His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road .

Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

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, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

(label) First in a series or copies/versions.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}

(label) Newly created.

(label) Fresh, different.

(label) Pioneering.

(label) Having as its origin.