opprimo
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opprimo
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈop.pri.moː/, [ˈɔpːrɪmoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈop.pri.mo/, [ˈɔpːrimo]
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opprimō (present infinitive opprimere, perfect active oppressī, supine oppressum); third conjugation
- to press down upon; to suppress
- to take by surprise
- Synonyms: prehendō, dēprehendō
- to capture
- Synonyms: comprehendō, apprehendō, capiō, prehendō, claudō, corripiō, arripiō
- (figurative) to crush, put down
- to attack, assail
- to overwhelm, overcome, subdue
- to hide, conceal
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- “opprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- opprimo in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “opprimo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opprimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)
- (ambiguous) to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
- (ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse
- to surprise and defeat the enemy: opprimere hostes (imprudentes, incautos, inopinantes)
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