premo

See also: Premo

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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, voya...@ix.netcom.com, “tina tyler posts again”, in rec.arts.movies.erotica‎^[1] (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^[2] (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.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈpɾe̞.mu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpɾe.mo]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɾe.mu]

Verb

premo

1. first-person singular present indicative of prémer

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-?

Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.

Proto-Italic *pres-

Latin premō

Latin premerebor.

Esperanto premi

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *-os

Archaic Latin -os

Latin -um

Italian -oder.

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Italic *-om

Archaic Latin -om

Latin -um

Spanish -oder.

Ancient Greek -οι (-oi)der.

Esperanto -o

Esperanto premo

From premi + -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpremo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: pre‧mo

Noun

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

1. pressure

Derived terms

• prema
• premi
• premsensilo

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

Forms not built on the present stem probably come from Proto-Italic *pres-, from Proto-Indo-European *pr-es- (“to press”), from *per- (“to push, beat, press”). The present stem is assumed to be an analogical formation on the model of tremō, which had the variant stems *trem- and *tres- in Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛː.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, Ovidius, 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, coërceō, reprimō, comprimō, sustentō

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

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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
18. (poetic) to plant; to sow
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.346–353:

      Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros,
      Sparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,
      Aut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;
      Inter enim labentur aquae tenuisque subibit
      Halitus atque animos tollent sata; iamque reperti,
      Qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae
      Urgerent; hoc effusos munimen ad imbris,
      Hoc, ubi hiulca siti findit canis aestifer arva.

      • Translation by James B. Greenough

        For the rest, whate'er
        The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon
        Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth
        Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal
        Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween
        Will water trickle and fine vapour creep,
        And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.
        Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone
        Or heavy potsherd press them from above;
        This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this
        When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of premō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	premō		premis		premit		premimus		premitis		premunt
	imperfect	premēbam		premēbās		premēbat		premēbāmus		premēbātis		premēbant
	future	premam		premēs		premet		premēmus		premētis		prement
	perfect	pressī		pressistī		pressit		pressimus		pressistis		pressērunt, pressēre
	pluperfect	presseram		presserās		presserat		presserāmus		presserātis		presserant
	future perfect	presserō		presseris		presserit		presserimus		presseritis		presserint
passive	present	premor		premeris, premere		premitur		premimur		premiminī		premuntur
	imperfect	premēbar		premēbāris, premēbāre		premēbātur		premēbāmur		premēbāminī		premēbantur
	future	premar		premēris, premēre		premētur		premēmur		premēminī		prementur
	perfect	pressus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	pressus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	pressus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	premam		premās		premat		premāmus		premātis		premant
	imperfect	premerem		premerēs		premeret		premerēmus		premerētis		premerent
	perfect	presserim		presserīs		presserit		presserīmus		presserītis		presserint
	pluperfect	pressissem		pressissēs		pressisset		pressissēmus		pressissētis		pressissent
passive	present	premar		premāris, premāre		premātur		premāmur		premāminī		premantur
	imperfect	premerer		premerēris, premerēre		premerētur		premerēmur		premerēminī		premerentur
	perfect	pressus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	pressus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		preme		—		—		premite		—
	future	—		premitō		premitō		—		premitōte		premuntō
passive	present	—		premere		—		—		premiminī		—
	future	—		premitor		premitor		—		—		premuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		premere			premī			premēns			—
future		pressūrum esse			pressum īrī			pressūrus			premendus, premundus
perfect		pressisse			pressum esse			—			pressus
future perfect		—			pressum fore			—			—
perfect potential		pressūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		premendī		premendō		premendum		premendō		pressum		pressū

Derived terms

• apprimō
• comprimō
• dēprimō
• exprimō
• imprimō
• opprimō
• pressim
• pressiō
• pressōrium
• pressōrius
• pressūra
• reprimō
• supprimō

Descendants

• Asturian: primir
• Catalan: prémer
• English: print, press
• Esperanto: premi
• Franco-Provençal: preindre
• Galician: premer
• Italian: premere
• Old French: priembre, preindre
  • French: preindre
• Portuguese: premer, premir
• Old Spanish: premer, premiar
  • Spanish: premir
• Sicilian: prèmiri

Further reading

• premo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), 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^[3], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[4], 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