premo

English

Etymology

Clipping of premium + -o, or a variant form of primo (“best, first-class”).

Adjective

premo (comparative more premo, superlative most premo)

1. (US, slang, rare) Excellent, attractive.
   • 1983, “Candidly Gannon”, in Lance, volume 32, Erie, P.A.: Gannon University, page 121:

     Like, you know, this guy at the dance was like soooo foxy mondo!! Like totally awesome. He could have been like a model for like GQ, for sure! He was premo[,] definitely not a zod.

   • 1998 May 31, [email protected], “tina tyler posts again”, in rec.arts.movies.erotica‎ (Usenet):

     I wish they would have shown much more of Nancy Vee and you when you did the initial g/g in the car... what little we saw was premo, absolutely premo!

   • 2008 May 22, TZodd / GravitaR, “FS Pins in Ann Arbor, MI”, in rec.games.pinball‎ (Usenet):

     I've been to his place once Brad and I have to say that his games were absolutely premo!

   • 2016, Savanna Redman, Butterfly Bones: Visions Are the Voice of the Soul, Nereid Press, →ISBN, page 323:

     It's where I like to escape to, for some there's not a lot to do there. I mean there is premo sportfishing, diving, windsurfing, and SUPs stand up paddleboards and kayaks, also I'm content to lie in the hammock all week and catch up on my reading, and, if it rains, hang out at Chaos and play Jenga or Ouija with the bartender and staff.

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Verb

premo

1. first-person singular present indicative of prémer

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpremo/
• Hyphenation: pre‧mo
• Rhymes: -emo

Noun

premo (accusative singular premon, plural premoj, accusative plural premojn)

1. pressure

Derived terms

Galician

Verb

premo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premer

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.mo/
• Rhymes: -ɛmo
• Hyphenation: prè‧mo

Verb

premo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premere

Anagrams

• rompe

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *premō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pr-es- (“to press”), from *per- (“to push, beat, press”). The present stem was formed on the model of tremō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.moː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpre.mo/,

Verb

premō (present infinitive premere, perfect active pressī, supine pressum); third conjugation

1. to press, push, press close or hard, oppress, overwhelm

   Synonyms: supprimō, sepeliō, reprimō, opprimō, comprimō, dēprimō, ingravō, gravō, aggravō, angō, īnstō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.351–352:

     cīncta premēbantur trucibus Capitōlia Gallīs:
     fēcerat obsidiō iam diuturna famem.

     The Capitol, having been surrounded, was being overwhelmed by the savage Gauls: Already the lengthy siege had caused a famine.

2. to tighten, compress, shorten, press closely, squeeze

   Synonyms: angō, opprimō, comprimō

3. to make, form, or shape any thing by pressing
4. to conceal, cover

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, comprimō, prōtegō, cooperiō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō

5. to knock down, topple, suppress, strike to the ground
6. to win, defeat, overcome, exceed

   Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, expugnō, domō, caedō, obruō, ēvincō, prōflīgō, pellō, opprimō, exsuperō, fundō

7. to pursue

   Synonyms: exsequor, persequor, sequor, cōnsequor, īnsector, īnstō, agō, apīscor

8. to denigrate, disparage, discredit

   Synonyms: contemnō, dēprimō, dētrectō, trādūcō

9. to close, block, arrest, check, restrain

   Synonyms: dētineō, inclūdō, claudō, interclūdō, intersaepiō, obstō, refrēnō, arceō, impediō, perimō, officiō, obstruō, saepiō, coerceō, reprimō, comprimō, sustentō

   Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.208–209:

     Tālia vōce refert, cūrīsque ingentibus aeger
     spem voltū simulat, premit altum corde dolōrem.

     Such words he speaks aloud, and sick with heavy anguish he feigns the face of hope, restrains the sadness deep in his heart.
     (Outwardly resolute, inwardly distraught: Possible translations vary regarding Aeneas’s self-control.)

10. to suffocate, repress

    Synonyms: angō, suffōcō

11. to lower, decrease, diminish

    Synonyms: diminuō, dēminuō, imminuō, minuō, tenuō

    Antonyms: accumulō, cumulō, adiciō, adaugeō, augeō, ampliō, amplificō, multiplicō

12. to stop, withhold, hold
13. to rape, ravish
14. to emphasize a particular word
15. to approach threateningly to
16. to condense, abridge, summarize

    Synonyms: imminuō, corripiō

17. to cause to sink, dig

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• premo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “premo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “premo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• premo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be tormented by hunger, to be starving: fame laborare, premi
    
  • to suffer agonies of thirst: siti cruciari, premi
    
  • to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: angustiis premi, difficultatibus affici
    
  • to suffer from want of a thing: inopia alicuius rei laborare, premi
    
  • to feel acute pain: doloribus premi, angi, ardere, cruciari, distineri et divelli
    
  • to be tormented with anxiety: angoribus premi
    
  • to be detested: invidia flagrare, premi
    
  • to languish in slavery: servitute premi (Phil. 4. 1. 3)
    
  • to be crushed by numerous imposts: tributorum multitudine premi
    
  • to suffer from want of forage: pabulatione premi (B. C. 1. 78)
    
  • to be pressed on all sides: undique premi, urgeri (B. G. 2. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) to persist in an argument, press a point: argumentum premere (not urgere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to press the rearguard: novissimos premere
    
• premo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Portuguese

Verb

premo

1. first-person singular present indicative of premer