supprime
See also: supprimé
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French supprimer, from Latin supprimere, supprimō (“to press down, suppress”), from sub- (“under, down”) + premō (“to press”).
Verb edit
supprime (third-person singular simple present supprimes, present participle suppriming, simple past and past participle supprimed)
- (rare) To suppress (in various senses).
- 1914, Speltz, Alexander, The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles: With Coloured Plates From Own Paintings in Water Colours, Leipzig: K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium, Second Part: Middle Ages, page 20:
- This triumph of orthodoxy, however, was not able to stop the impuls of the new renaissance, and the taste for a literary and profane art, that had been always supprimed by orthodoxy in Byzantium, prevailed.
References edit
- “supprime, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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supprime
- inflection of supprimer:
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supprime
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supprime
- inflection of supprimir: