Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin exprimere. Compare the borrowed doublet esprimere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsprɛ.me.re/
  • Rhymes: -ɛmere
  • Hyphenation: sprè‧me‧re

Verb

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sprèmere (first-person singular present sprèmo, first-person singular past historic spremétti or (traditional) spremètti, past participle spremùto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to squeeze (fruit)
  2. to press (olives)
  3. (figurative) to squeeze, to extort

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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