a priori

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɑː pɹiˈɔːɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹaɪ/
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• General-American: /ˌɑ pɹiˈoɹi/
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• General-American: /ˌæ pɹiˈoɹi/
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• General-American: /ˌeɪ pɹiˈoɹi/
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• General-American: /ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈoɹaɪ/
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• rhymes with -ɔːɹi
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• rhymes with -ɔːɹaɪ
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First attested in 1610. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā priōrī (“involving reasoning from cause to effect; from first principles”, literally “from the former”).

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُسَلَّم بِه (musallam bih) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Arabic: لَا يُحْتَاجُ إِثْبَاتَة إِلَى تَجْرِبَة — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Belarusian: апрыёрны (apryjórny) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Chinese Mandarin: 先驗 /先验 (xiānyàn) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Danish: a priori — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Finnish: apriorinen — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Finnish: hypoteettinen — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Greek: επαγωγικός (epagogikós) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Greek: συμπερασματικός (symperasmatikós) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Hindi: प्रागनुभविक (prāgnubhvik) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Hindi: अनुभवनिरपेक्ष (anubhvanirpekṣ) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Italian: a priori — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Italian: teorico — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Italian: preconcetto — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Korean: 선험적인 (seonheomjeogin) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Norwegian Bokmål: a priori — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Polish: a priori — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Polish: aprioryczny — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Polish: apriorystyczny — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Portuguese: a priori — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Russian: априо́рный (apriórnyj) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Russian: доо́пытный (doópytnyj) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Russian: предположи́тельный (predpoložítelʹnyj) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Spanish: a priori — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Tagalog: matwiranin — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Turkish: apriori — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Turkish: önsel — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Ukrainian: апріо́рний (apriórnyj) — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Vietnamese: tiên nghiệm — logic: based on hypothesis rather than experiment
• Finnish: itsestäänselvä — self-evident, intuitively obvious
• Finnish: itsestään selvä — self-evident, intuitively obvious
• Finnish: oletusarvoinen — self-evident, intuitively obvious
• Polish: a priori — self-evident, intuitively obvious
• Spanish: a priori — self-evident, intuitively obvious
• Finnish: lähtökohtainen — presumed without analysis
• Finnish: oletusarvoinen — presumed without analysis
• Finnish: apriorinen — presumed without analysis
• Polish: a priori — presumed without analysis
• Spanish: a priori — presumed without analysis
• Finnish: fiktiivinen — linguistics: developed entirely from scratch
• Polish: a priori — linguistics: developed entirely from scratch
• Spanish: a priori — linguistics: developed entirely from scratch
• Arabic: مُسَبَّق (musabbaq) — derived by logic
• Belarusian: апрыёры (apryjóry) — derived by logic
• Chinese Mandarin: 先驗 /先验 (xiānyàn) — derived by logic
• Czech: a priori — derived by logic
• Dutch: a priori — derived by logic
• Finnish: apriorisesti — derived by logic
• Finnish: a priori — derived by logic
• French: a priori — derived by logic
• Galician: a priori — derived by logic
• Georgian: აპრიორი (aṗriori) — derived by logic
• German: a priori — derived by logic
• Greek: εκ των προτέρων (ek ton protéron) — derived by logic
• Hebrew: אפריורי (apriori) — derived by logic
• Hindi: पूर्वसिद्ध (pūrvasiddh) — derived by logic
• Italian: a priori — derived by logic
• Japanese: アプリオリ (apuriori) — derived by logic
• Norwegian Bokmål: a priori — derived by logic
• Polish: a priori — derived by logic
• Polish: apriorycznie — derived by logic
• Portuguese: a priori — derived by logic
• Romanian: a priori — derived by logic
• Russian: априо́ри (aprióri) — derived by logic
• Russian: зара́нее (zaráneje) — derived by logic
• Russian: незави́симо от о́пыта (nezavísimo ot ópyta) — derived by logic
• Russian: до о́пыта (do ópyta) — derived by logic
• Spanish: a priori — derived by logic
• Turkish: önsel — derived by logic
• Ukrainian: апріо́рі (aprióri) — derived by logic