pressus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpres.sus/, [ˈprɛs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpres.sus/, [ˈprɛsːus]

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

• English: press
• Catalan: pressa
• French: près
• Galician: présa
• Italian: presso
• Portuguese: pressa
• Sicilian: prescia
• Spanish: priesa, prisa

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.