pressus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of premō (“I press”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛs.sus]

Participle

pressus (feminine pressa, neuter pressum, comparative pressior, adverb pressē); first/second-declension participle

1. pressed, having been pressed, squeezed
2. suppressed, moderate, slow, having been kept down
3. (of the voice) subdued, having been subdued
4. (of color) lowered, subdued, gloomy
5. compressed, concise, plain
6. close, exact, accurate

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pressus	pressa	pressum		pressī	pressae	pressa
genitive	pressī	pressae	pressī		pressōrum	pressārum	pressōrum
dative	pressō	pressae	pressō		pressīs
accusative	pressum	pressam	pressum		pressōs	pressās	pressa
ablative	pressō	pressā	pressō		pressīs
vocative	presse	pressa	pressum		pressī	pressae	pressa

Derived terms

• pressē
• pressim
• pressiō
• pressō
• pressōrius
• pressulē
• pressulus
• pressūra

Descendants

Note: see pressē for related descendants.

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: pressa, presse, pressi
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: presso, pressa
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pressa
    • Galician: présa
    • Portuguese: pressa

From Late Latin *pressia:

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: prescia
  • Neapolitan: prescia
  • Sicilian: prescia
  • Venetan: presa
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Ladin: prëscia, prescia
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: sprescia
  • Lombard: pressa
  • Piedmontese: spressa
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Spanish: priesa
    • Spanish: prisa

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: pressa
• → Old French: presse
  • French: presse
    • → Middle English: presse (partially)
      • English: press
• → Old English: presse
  • Middle English: presse (partially)
    • English: press

References

• “pressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pressus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pressus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.