opprimo

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

opprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of opprimere

• oppormi

From ob- +‎ premō (“press”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈop.pri.moː/, [ˈɔpːrɪmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈop.pri.mo/, [ˈɔpːrimo]

opprimō (present infinitive opprimere, perfect active oppressī, supine oppressum); third conjugation

1. to press down upon; to suppress

   Synonyms: supprimō, sepeliō, reprimō, dēprimō, cohibeō, premō, comprimō, angō

2. to take by surprise

   Synonyms: prehendō, dēprehendō

3. to capture

   Synonyms: comprehendō, apprehendō, capiō, prehendō, claudō, corripiō, arripiō

4. to crush, put down
5. to attack, assail

   Synonyms: irrumpō, impetō, aggredior, accēdō, adorior, incidō, oppugnō, incurrō, concurrō, petō, accurrō, occurrō, incēdō, intrō, excurrō, īnstō, invādō, adeō, arripiō, inruō, assiliō, appetō, invehō, incessō, lacessō

   Antonyms: repugnō, resistō, adversor, obversor, obstō, sistō

6. to overwhelm, overcome, subdue

   Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, pācō, ēvincō, expugnō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, exsuperō, obruō, pellō, premō, fundō

7. to hide, conceal

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō

• “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
    

opprimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of opprimir