premere

Italian

Etymology

From Latin premere.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

prèmere (first-person singular present prèmo, first-person singular past historic premétti or (traditional) premètti or preméi, past participle premùto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (transitive) to press
  2. (transitive) to pull (a trigger)
  3. (intransitive) to be important [auxiliary avere]

Conjugation

Including lesser-used forms:

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

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

Latin

    Verb

    premēre

    1. second-person singular future passive indicative of premō

    Verb

    premere

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

    Verb

    premere

    1. present active infinitive of premō

    References

    • 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

    Adjective

    premere f

    1. nominative/oblique feminine singular of premer