pressura

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: pressuras, pressurât

Verb

pressura

1. third-person singular past historic of pressurer

Latin

Etymology

From pressō (“I press”), from pressus, perfect passive participle of premō (“I press”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /presˈsuː.ra/, [prɛs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /presˈsu.ra/, [presˈsuːrä]

Noun

pressūra f (genitive pressūrae); first declension

1. a pressing, pressure
2. throng, crowd
3. an unnaturally long or heavy sleep
4. (poetic) juice; that which is pressed out
5. (figuratively) a burden
6. (figuratively) oppression, affliction, distress

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pressūra	pressūrae
genitive	pressūrae	pressūrārum
dative	pressūrae	pressūrīs
accusative	pressūram	pressūrās
ablative	pressūrā	pressūrīs
vocative	pressūra	pressūrae

Synonyms

• (a pressing): pressiō

Related terms

• pressim
• pressiō
• pressō
• pressōrius
• pressulē
• pressulus
• pressus

Descendants

• Catalan: pressura
• Old French: pressure
  • → English: pressure
• Italian: pressura
• Spanish: presura

References

• “pressura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pressura 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “pressura”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• pressura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016