comprimo

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimir

• IPA^(key): /komˈpri.mo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: com‧prì‧mo

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimere

• compormi, coprimmo

• conprimo

From con- (“with”) +‎ premō (“to press”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.prɪ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.pri.mo]

comprimō (present infinitive comprimere, perfect active compressī, supine compressum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to compress (squeeze together)

   Synonyms: premō, opprimō, angō

2. (transitive) to restrain, contain, repress or curb, hinder, check

   Synonyms: refrēnō, coërceō, officiō, inclūdō, intersaepiō, cohibeō, reprimō, retineō, impediō, contineō, arceō, premō, sustentō, moror

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

   manum comprimere ― to keep off of

   animam comprimere ― to hold one's breath

   vōcem comprimere ― to keep silent

   1. (medicine, transitive) to constipate, make costive

      stomachum comprimere ― to render someone costive

      Synonym: (Medieval Latin) cōnstīpō

3. (transitive, rare) to withhold or conceal evidences or knowledge about, to keep something to oneself

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, abscondō, abdō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō

4. (transitive) to make love, lie with; (often forcibly) to dishonour a woman, to rape

   Synonyms: amō, coeō, dūcō, (vulgar) futuō; stuprō

   • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia prologus.0.28–33:

     Nam eam compressit de summo adulescens loco.
     Is scit adulescens quae sit quam compresserit,
     illa illum nescit, neque compressam autem pater.
     Eam ego hodie faciam ut hic senex de proxumo
     sibi uxorem poscat. Id ea faciam gratia,
     quo ille eam facilius ducat qui compresserat.

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   • c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 2.2.26–27:

     Edepol hominem infelicem, qui patronam comprimat.
     Nam si quid sceleste fecit, lingua pro illo perierat.

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   • 165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 572–573:

     Nam quom compressast gnata, forma in tenebris nosci non quitast,
     neque detractum ei tum quicquamst qui posset post nosci qui siet; […]

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.4:

     Vi compressa Vestalis cum geminum partum edidisset, seu ita rata seu quia deus auctor culpae honestior erat, Martem incertae stirpis patrem nuncupat.

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• “comprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “comprimo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimir

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimir