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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpri.mo/
- Rhymes: -imo
- Hyphenation: re‧prì‧mo
Verb
reprimo
- first-person singular present indicative of reprimere
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From re- + premō (“press”).
Pronunciation
Verb
reprimō (present infinitive reprimere, perfect active repressī, supine repressum); third conjugation
- to repress
- Synonyms: supprimō, sepeliō, cohibeō, opprimō, premō, comprimō, dēprimō, angō
- to check, prevent or restrain
- Synonyms: refrēnō, coerceō, saepiō, officiō, dētineō, obstō, tardō, perimō, inclūdō, intersaepiō, comprimō, retineō, impediō, contineō, arceō, supprimō, premō, sustentō, moror
- Antonyms: līberō, eximō, vindicō, servō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “reprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reprimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lower a person's pride: spiritus alicuius reprimere
- to restrain, master one's passion: iracundiam continere, cohibere, reprimere
- to allay the excitement of the mob: concitatam multitudinem reprimere
- to destroy a despotism, tyranny: regios spiritus reprimere (Nep. Dion. 5. 5)
- to bring the flying enemy to a stand: fugam hostium reprimere (B. G. 3. 14)
Portuguese
Verb
reprimo
- first-person singular present indicative of reprimir
Spanish
Verb
reprimo
- first-person singular present indicative of reprimir