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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of opprimō.
Participle
oppressus (feminine oppressa, neuter oppressum); first/second-declension participle
- suppressed; surprised, captured; crushed; oppressed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “oppressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- oppressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to keep the citizens in servile subjection: civitatem servitute oppressam tenere (Dom. 51. 131)
- (ambiguous) to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
- (ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse