Primeval
/praɪˈmiːvəl/noun
Of or belonging to the earliest ages or the first state of the world.
Did you know?Primeval comes from Latin roots that mean “first age,” and it preserves the eerie sense of something so old it feels like it existed before human memory.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
prīmus
“first”
Latin
Latin
aevum
“age, lifetime, era”
Late Latin
Latin
prīmāevus
“of the first age; very old”
Early Modern English
English
primeval
“belonging to the earliest age of the world”
Modern English
English
primeval
“ancient, original, of the earliest times”