comprimō

comprimō

From con- (“with”) +‎ premō (“to press”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.prɪ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔm.pri.mo]

Verb

comprimō (present infinitive comprimere, perfect active compressī, supine compressum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to compress (squeeze together)

   Synonyms: premō, opprimō, angō

2. (transitive) to restrain, contain, repress or curb, hinder, check

   Synonyms: refrēnō, coërceō, officiō, inclūdō, intersaepiō, cohibeō, reprimō, retineō, impediō, contineō, arceō, premō, sustentō, moror

   Antonyms: līberō, eximō, vindicō, servō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō

   manum comprimere ― to keep off of

   animam comprimere ― to hold one's breath

   vōcem comprimere ― to keep silent

   1. (medicine, transitive) to constipate, make costive

      stomachum comprimere ― to render someone costive

      Synonym: (Medieval Latin) cōnstīpō

3. (transitive, rare) to withhold or conceal evidences or knowledge about, to keep something to oneself

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, abscondō, abdō, opprimō, mergō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō

4. (transitive) to make love, lie with; (often forcibly) to dishonour a woman, to rape

   Synonyms: amō, coeō, dūcō, (vulgar) futuō; stuprō