premere

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin premere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈprɛ.me.re/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛmere
  • Hyphenation: prè‧me‧re

Verb

prèmere (first-person singular present prèmo, first-person singular past historic premétti or (traditional) premètti, past participle premùto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to press
  2. (transitive) to pull (a trigger)
  3. (intransitive) to be important

Conjugation

Including lesser-used forms:

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • premere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

premēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of premō

Verb

premere

  1. inflection of premō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Verb

premere

  1. present active infinitive of premō

References

  • premere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to persist in an argument, press a point: argumentum premere (not urgere)
    • (ambiguous) to press the rearguard: novissimos premere

Old French

Adjective

premere f

  1. nominative/oblique feminine singular of premer