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premere
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Italian
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
prèmere (first-person singular present prèmo, first-person singular past historic premétti or (traditional) premètti or preméi, past participle premùto, auxiliary avére)
- (transitive) to press
- (transitive) to pull (a trigger)
- (intransitive) to be important [auxiliary avere]
Conjugation
1Traditional.
Including lesser-used forms:
1Traditional.
2Archaic.
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- premere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin
Verb
premēre
Verb
premere
- inflection of premō:
Verb
premere
References
- premere in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to persist in an argument, press a point: argumentum premere (not urgere)
- (ambiguous) to press the rearguard: novissimos premere
- (ambiguous) to persist in an argument, press a point: argumentum premere (not urgere)
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Old French
Adjective
premere f
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