opprimo

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /opˈpri.mo/
  • Rhymes: -imo
  • Hyphenation: op‧prì‧mo

Verb

opprimo

  1. 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

  1. to press down upon; to suppress
    Synonyms: supprimō, sepeliō, reprimō, dēprimō, cohibeō, premō, comprimō, angō
  2. to take by surprise
    Synonyms: prehendō, dēprehendō
  3. to capture
    Synonyms: comprehendō, apprehendō, capiō, prehendō, claudō, corripiō, arripiō
  4. to crush, put down
  5. 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
  6. to overwhelm, overcome, subdue
    Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, pācō, ēvincō, expugnō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, exsuperō, obruō, pellō, premō, fundō
  7. 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

  1. first-person singular present indicative of opprimir