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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /opˈpri.mo/
- Rhymes: -imo
- Hyphenation: op‧prì‧mo
Verb
opprimo
- first-person singular present indicative of opprimere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From ob- + premō (“press”).
Pronunciation
Verb
opprimō (present infinitive opprimere, perfect active oppressī, supine oppressum); third conjugation
- to press down upon; to suppress
- Synonyms: supprimō, sepeliō, reprimō, dēprimō, cohibeō, premō, comprimō, angō
- to take by surprise
- Synonyms: prehendō, dēprehendō
- to capture
- Synonyms: comprehendō, apprehendō, capiō, prehendō, claudō, corripiō, arripiō
- to crush, put down
- to attack, assail
- Synonyms: irrumpō, impetō, aggredior, accēdō, adorior, incidō, oppugnō, incurrō, concurrō, petō, accurrō, occurrō, incēdō, intrō, excurrō, īnstō, invādō, adeō, arripiō, inruō, assiliō, appetō, invehō, incessō, lacessō
- Antonyms: repugnō, resistō, adversor, obversor, obstō, sistō
- to overwhelm, overcome, subdue
- Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, pācō, ēvincō, expugnō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, exsuperō, obruō, pellō, premō, fundō
- to hide, conceal
- Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, mergō
- Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “opprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- opprimo in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “opprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opprimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)
- (ambiguous) to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
- (ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse
Portuguese
Verb
opprimo
- first-person singular present indicative of opprimir