premo

• IPA^(key): /ˈpremo/
• Hyphenation: pre‧mo
• Rhymes: -emo

premo (accusative singular premon, plural premoj, accusative plural premojn)

1. pressure

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo
• Hyphenation: prè‧mo

premo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premere

• rompe

From Proto-Italic *premō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pr-es- (“to press”), from *per- (“to push, beat, press”). The present stem was formed on the model of tremō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.moː/, [ˈprɛmoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.mo/, [ˈprɛːmo]

premō (present infinitive premere, perfect active pressī, supine pressum); third conjugation

1. I press, push, press close or hard, oppress, overwhelm

   Synonyms: supprimō, sepeliō, reprimō, opprimō, comprimō, dēprimō, ingravō, gravō, aggravō, angō, īnstō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.351-352:

     cīncta premēbantur trucibus Capitōlia Gallīs:
     fēcerat obsidiō iam diuturna famem.

     The Capitol, having been surrounded, was being overwhelmed by the savage Gauls: Already the lengthy siege had caused a famine.

2. I tighten, compress, shorten, press closely, squeeze

   Synonyms: angō, opprimō, comprimō

3. I make, form, or shape any thing by pressing
4. I conceal, cover

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, comprimō, prōtegō, cooperiō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō

5. I knock down, topple, suppress, strike to the ground
6. I win, defeat, overcome, exceed

   Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, expugnō, domō, caedō, obruō, ēvincō, prōflīgō, pellō, opprimō, exsuperō, fundō

7. I pursue

   Synonyms: exsequor, persequor, sequor, cōnsequor, īnstō, agō, apīscor

8. I denigrate, disparage, discredit

   Synonyms: contemnō, dēprimō, dētrectō, trādūcō

9. I close, block, arrest, check, restrain

   Synonyms: dētineō, inclūdō, claudō, interclūdō, intersaepiō, obstō, refrēnō, arceō, impediō, perimō, officiō, obstruō, saepiō, coerceō, reprimō, comprimō, sustentō

   Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō

10. I suffocate, repress

    Synonyms: angō, suffōcō

11. I lower, decrease, diminish

    Synonyms: diminuō, dēminuō, imminuō, minuō, tenuō

    Antonyms: accumulō, cumulō, adiciō, adaugeō, augeō, ampliō, amplificō, multiplicō

12. I stop, withhold
13. I rape, ravish
14. I emphasize a particular word
15. I approach threateningly to
16. I condense, abridge, summarize

    Synonyms: imminuō, corripiō

17. I cause to sink, dig

• premo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “premo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “premo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• premo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be tormented by hunger, to be starving: fame laborare, premi
    
  • to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
    
  • to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: angustiis premi, difficultatibus affici
    
  • to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
    
  • to feel acute pain: doloribus premi, angi, ardere, cruciari, distineri et divelli
    
  • to be tormented with anxiety: angoribus premi
    
  • to be detested: invidia flagrare, premi
    
  • to languish in slavery: servitute premi (Phil. 4. 1. 3)
    
  • to be crushed by numerous imposts: tributorum multitudine premi
    
  • to suffer from want of forage: pabulatione premi (B. C. 1. 78)
    
  • to be pressed on all sides: undique premi, urgeri (B. G. 2. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) to persist in an argument, press a point: argumentum premere (not urgere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to press the rearguard: novissimos premere
    
• premo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag