premo

Meaning

1. (conjugation-3) to press, push, press close or hard, oppress, overwhelm
2. (conjugation-3) to tighten, compress, shorten, press closely, squeeze
3. (conjugation-3) to make, form, or shape any thing by pressing
4. (conjugation-3) to conceal, cover
5. (conjugation-3) to knock down, topple, suppress, strike to the ground
6. (conjugation-3) to win, defeat, overcome, exceed
7. (conjugation-3) to pursue
8. (conjugation-3) to denigrate, disparage, discredit
9. (conjugation-3) to close, block, arrest, check, restrain
10. (conjugation-3) to suffocate, repress
11. (conjugation-3) to lower, decrease, diminish
12. (conjugation-3) to stop, withhold, hold
13. (conjugation-3) to rape, ravish
14. (conjugation-3) to emphasize a particular word
15. (conjugation-3) to approach threateningly to
16. (conjugation-3) to condense, abridge, summarize
17. (conjugation-3) to cause to sink, dig
18. (conjugation-3, poetic) to plant; to sow

Concepts

strike down

press down

overwhelm

stifle

squeeze

press

weigh down

Opposite of

adaperiō, aperiō, līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō, accumulō, cumulō, adiciō, adaugeō, augeō, ampliō, amplificō, multiplicō

Translations

drücken

prémer

herabdrücken

quetschen

ασφυκτιώ

καταβάλλω

αποσπώ δι' απειλών

appuyer

enfoncer

presser

premere

spremere

sopraffaccia

drukken

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈprɛ.moː]

Etymology

Forms not built on the present stem probably come from Proto-Italic *pres-, from Proto-Indo-European *pr-es- (“to press”), from *per- (“to push, beat, press”). The present stem is assumed to be an analogical formation on the model of tremō, which had the variant stems *trem- and *tres- in Proto-Indo-European.