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premo

See also: Premo

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of premium + -o,[1] or a variant form of primo (“best, first-class”).

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Adjective

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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.

References

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  1. ^ “premo adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Catalan

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premo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of prémer

Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpremo/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧mo
  • Rhymes: -emo

Noun

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

  1. pressure

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Galician

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premo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premer

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈprɛ.mo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmo
  • Hyphenation: prè‧mo

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premo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premere

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *premō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pr-es- (“to press”), from *per- (“to push, beat, press”). The present stem was formed on the model of tremō.[1]

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Verb

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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, Ovid, 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, coerceō, reprimō, comprimō, sustentō
    Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 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

Conjugation

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   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 active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives premere pressisse pressūrum esse premī pressum esse pressum īrī
participles premēns — pressūrus — pressus premendus,
premundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
premendī premendō premendum premendō pressum pressū

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “premō, ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 487-8

Further reading

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  • premo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), 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 (2016 July 16 (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 (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

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Verb

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premo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of premer
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