spremere

Italian

Etymology

From Latin exprimere. Compare the borrowed doublet esprimere.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Derived terms

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