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reprimo
reprimo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.pri.moː/, [ˈrɛ.prɪ.moː]
Verb
reprimō (present infinitive reprimere, perfect active repressī, supine repressum); third conjugation
Inflection
Descendants
- French: réprimer
References
- reprimo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- reprimo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “reprimo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lower a person's pride: spiritus alicuius reprimere
- to restrain, master one's passion: iracundiam continere, cohibere, reprimere
- to allay the excitement of the mob: concitatam multitudinem reprimere
- to destroy a despotism, tyranny: regios spiritus reprimere (Nep. Dion. 5. 5)
- to bring the flying enemy to a stand: fugam hostium reprimere (B. G. 3. 14)
- to lower a person's pride: spiritus alicuius reprimere