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Translation

to depress, to dishearten

Word origin

From Latin deprimere, 'to press down', from de- ('down') plus premere ('to press'). English depress is the same word by the same road, and the physical image under it is a weight sitting on top of something.

Origin
Latin
Root
deprimere
English cognates
depress, depression, press, compress

Examples

.

The long rain gets me down.

.

The news from the town depressed her.

.

That kind of weather gets a lot of people down.

Not - plus a root primi. There is no verb primi in Esperanto, so the - you can see at the front is not the Esperanto preposition doing prefix duty - it is Latin - frozen inside a word that came over whole. Deprim- is one root. The same is true of deprimo and i: they are built on that root, not on a root prim-.

Register, honestly. English has let "depressed" slide between a clinical diagnosis and a wet Tuesday, and Esperanto has inherited some of that slide. On this site the everyday sense is what the examples teach - weather, news, a long grey week - because that is what learners need to say. The medical condition has its own word, depresio, and clinicians use it precisely; if you mean the illness, use depresio rather than stretching deprimo. Saying about a bad afternoon is normal Esperanto and nobody will read it as a diagnosis, but knowing that the two words exist separately is the difference between speaking loosely and speaking carelessly.

The forms. is transitive - a thing depresses a person. i is to become low, and is the adjective for the person: , he is down. Deprima describes the cause: deprima , depressing weather. Deprimo is the low mood itself.

Nearby. Malĝoja is plain sadness. Tedi is to bore. Ĝeni is to bother. Konsoli is what you do about any of them, and it is a kinder verb to reach for than most learners realise.

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This word is part of lesson 44.