press
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From Middle English presse (“throng, crowd, clothespress”), partially from Old English press (“clothespress”) (from Medieval Latin pressa) and from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser (“to press”), from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere (“to press”). Displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)).
press (countable and uncountable, plural presses)
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From Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press”), from Old French presser (“to press”) (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen (“to press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þringan (“to press, crowd”)), Middle English thrasten (“to press, force, urge”) (from Old English þrǣstan (“to press, force”)), Old English þryscan (“to press”), Old English þȳwan (“to press, impress”).
press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest)
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press
From the verb presse.
press n (definite singular presset, indefinite plural press, definite plural pressa or pressene)
press
From the verb presse.
press n (definite singular presset, indefinite plural press, definite plural pressa)
press m (plural press)
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press c
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | press | press |
definite | pressen | pressens | |
plural | indefinite | pressar | pressars |
definite | pressarna | pressarnas |
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