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pressit

pressit is a Latin form of premo, meaning “press, squeeze; oppress”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 79 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 2.380: pressit humi nitens, trepidusque repente refugit

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.188: Pressit, et in cunis iam Iove dignus erat.

All forms of premo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.