comprimir

Borrowed from Latin comprimere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kum.pɾiˈmi]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kom.pɾiˈmi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kom.pɾiˈmiɾ]

comprimir (first-person singular present comprimeixo, first-person singular preterite comprimí, past participle comprimit)

1. to compress
2. (computing) to zip, compress

• descomprimir

• aire comprimit
• comprimit

• compressió

• “comprimir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “comprimir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “comprimir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “comprimir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin comprimere.

comprimir (first-person singular present comprimo, first-person singular preterite comprimín, past participle comprimido)
comprimir (first-person singular present comprimo, first-person singular preterite comprimim or comprimi, past participle comprimido, short past participle compresso, reintegrationist norm)

1. to compress
2. (computing) to zip, compress

• descomprimir

• aire comprimido
• comprimido

• compresión

• “comprimir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “comprimir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Latin comprimere.

• Hyphenation: com‧pri‧mir

comprimir (first-person singular present comprimo, first-person singular preterite comprimi, past participle comprimido, short past participle compresso)

1. to compress
2. (computing) to zip, compress

• descomprimir

• comprimido

• compressão

Borrowed from Latin comprimere.

• IPA^(key): /kompɾiˈmiɾ/ [kõm.pɾiˈmiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: com‧pri‧mir

comprimir (first-person singular present comprimo, first-person singular preterite comprimí, past participle comprimido)

1. (transitive) to compress (to make smaller; to press or squeeze together)

   Antonym: descomprimir

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 304:

     Para hacer cesar el hipo, es bueno comprimirse un lado de la nariz y contener un instante la respiración.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (computing) to zip, compress (to make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits)

   Antonym: descomprimir

• “comprimir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024