Clipping ofpremium +-o,[1] or a variant form ofprimo(“best, first-class”).
premo (comparativemorepremo,superlativemostpremo)
- (US, slang, rare)Excellent,attractive.
1983, “Candidly Gannon”, inLance, volume32, Erie, P.A.:Gannon University,page121: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 waspremo[,] definitely not azod.
1998 May 31, voya...@ix.netcom.com, “tina tyler posts again”, inrec.arts.movies.erotica[1] (Usenet):I wish they would have shown much more of Nancy Vee and you when you did the initialg/g in the car... what little we saw waspremo, absolutelypremo!
2008 May 22, TZodd / GravitaR, “FS Pins in Ann Arbor, MI”, inrec.games.pinball[2] (Usenet):I've been to his place once Brad and I have to say that his games were absolutelypremo!
2016, Savanna Redman,Butterfly Bones: Visions Are the Voice of the Soul, Nereid Press,→ISBN,page323:It's where I like to escape to, for some there's not a lot to do there. I mean there ispremo sportfishing, diving, windsurfing, and SUPsstand 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.
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- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofprémer
premo (accusative singularpremon,pluralpremoj,accusative pluralpremojn)
- pressure
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FromProto-Italic*premō, possibly fromProto-Indo-European*pr-es-(“to press”), from*per-(“to push, beat, press”). The present stem was formed on the model oftremō.[1]
premō (present infinitivepremere,perfect activepressī,supinepressum);third conjugation
- topress,push, pressclose orhard,oppress,overwhelm
- Synonyms:supprimō,sepeliō,reprimō,opprimō,comprimō,dēprimō,ingravō,gravō,aggravō,angō,īnstō
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti6.351–352:
- cīnctapremēbantur 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.
- totighten,compress,shorten, pressclosely,squeeze
- Synonyms:angō,opprimō,comprimō
- tomake,form, orshape any thing bypressing
- toconceal,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
- toknock down,topple,suppress,strike to theground
- towin,defeat,overcome,exceed
- Synonyms:subigō,subiciō,dēvincō,vincō,conquestō,superō,expugnō,domō,caedō,obruō,ēvincō,prōflīgō,pellō,opprimō,exsuperō,fundō
- topursue
- Synonyms:exsequor,persequor,sequor,cōnsequor,īnsector,īnstō,agō,apīscor
- todenigrate,disparage,discredit
- Synonyms:contemnō,dēprimō,dētrectō,trādūcō
- toclose,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
29BCE – 19BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid1.208–209:
- 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.)
- tosuffocate,repress
- Synonyms:angō,suffōcō
- tolower,decrease,diminish
- Synonyms:diminuō,dēminuō,imminuō,minuō,tenuō
- Antonyms:accumulō,cumulō,adiciō,adaugeō,augeō,ampliō,amplificō,multiplicō
- tostop,withhold,hold
- torape,ravish
- toemphasize a particular word
- toapproachthreateningly to
- tocondense,abridge,summarize
- Synonyms:imminuō,corripiō
- tocause tosink,dig
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “premō, ere”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,pages487-8
- premo inEnrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025),Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “premo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “premo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- premo inGaffiot, 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 (noturgere)
- (ambiguous) to press the rearguard:novissimos premere
- premo inRamminger, 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 [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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