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premere

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin premere.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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

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Including lesser-used forms:

Derived terms

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See also

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Further reading

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

Latin

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Verb

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premēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of premō

Verb

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premere

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

Verb

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premere

  1. present active infinitive of premō

References

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  • 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

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Adjective

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premere f

  1. nominative/oblique feminine singular of premer