Beginning
Beginning adjective - Of or relating to the simplest facts or theories of a subject.
Usage example: a course in beginning geology for nonscience majors
Prime is a synonym for beginning in original topic. In some cases you can use "Prime" instead an adjective "Beginning", when it comes to topics like earliest.
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- It was used first in the original Transformers movie (in the 1980s), at the beginning of the final battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime, and the one who died was Prime.
Source: Badass Creed / Western Animation -
The TV series beginning with Star Trek: The Next Generation showed the Senate as a unicameral legislature, with a single praetor apparently equivalent to a prime minister.
Source: Jossed -
The beginning of the film Anger Management is a prime example of this; the more Adam tries to apologize for his mistakes the more everyone gets upset.
Source: Kafka Komedy
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