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primipile

/pʁi.mi.pil/

adjective/pʁi.mi.pil/

highest-ranking, chief, at the head of the first centuria of the first cohort

centurion primipile

Learned borrowing from Latin prīmipīlus.

noun, masculine/pʁi.mi.pil/plural: primipiles

highest-ranking centurion of the legion

Related: primipilaire

Ellipsis of centurion primipile.