comprimo

Galician

Verb

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimir

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimere

Anagrams

• compormi, coprimmo

Latin

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Alternative forms

• conprimo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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Conjugation

   Conjugation of comprimō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	comprimō		comprimis		comprimit		comprimimus		comprimitis		comprimunt
	imperfect	comprimēbam		comprimēbās		comprimēbat		comprimēbāmus		comprimēbātis		comprimēbant
	future	comprimam		comprimēs		comprimet		comprimēmus		comprimētis		compriment
	perfect	compressī		compressistī		compressit		compressimus		compressistis		compressērunt, compressēre
	pluperfect	compresseram		compresserās		compresserat		compresserāmus		compresserātis		compresserant
	future perfect	compresserō		compresseris		compresserit		compresserimus		compresseritis		compresserint
passive	present	comprimor		comprimeris, comprimere		comprimitur		comprimimur		comprimiminī		comprimuntur
	imperfect	comprimēbar		comprimēbāris, comprimēbāre		comprimēbātur		comprimēbāmur		comprimēbāminī		comprimēbantur
	future	comprimar		comprimēris, comprimēre		comprimētur		comprimēmur		comprimēminī		comprimentur
	perfect	compressus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	compressus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	compressus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	comprimam		comprimās		comprimat		comprimāmus		comprimātis		comprimant
	imperfect	comprimerem		comprimerēs		comprimeret		comprimerēmus		comprimerētis		comprimerent
	perfect	compresserim		compresserīs		compresserit		compresserīmus		compresserītis		compresserint
	pluperfect	compressissem		compressissēs		compressisset		compressissēmus		compressissētis		compressissent
passive	present	comprimar		comprimāris, comprimāre		comprimātur		comprimāmur		comprimāminī		comprimantur
	imperfect	comprimerer		comprimerēris, comprimerēre		comprimerētur		comprimerēmur		comprimerēminī		comprimerentur
	perfect	compressus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	compressus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		comprime		—		—		comprimite		—
	future	—		comprimitō		comprimitō		—		comprimitōte		comprimuntō
passive	present	—		comprimere		—		—		comprimiminī		—
	future	—		comprimitor		comprimitor		—		—		comprimuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		comprimere			comprimī			comprimēns			—
future		compressūrum esse			compressum īrī			compressūrus			comprimendus, comprimundus
perfect		compressisse			compressum esse			—			compressus
future perfect		—			compressum fore			—			—
perfect potential		compressūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		comprimendī		comprimendō		comprimendum		comprimendō		compressum		compressū

Derived terms

• compressiō
• compressō
• compressor
• compressus

Descendants

• Catalan: comprimir
• English: compress
• French: comprimer
• Galician: comprimir
• Italian: comprimere
• Portuguese: comprimir
• Spanish: comprimir

References

• “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.

Portuguese

Verb

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimir

Spanish

Verb

comprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of comprimir