premere

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin premere.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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 [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation[edit]

Including lesser-used forms:

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

premēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of premō

Verb[edit]

premere

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

Verb[edit]

premere

  1. present active infinitive of premō

References[edit]

  • premere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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[edit]

Adjective[edit]

premere f

  1. nominative/oblique feminine singular of premer