presse
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʰʁ̥asə], [ˈpʰʁ̥ɑsə]
Etymology 1
Borrowed via German Presse and French presse from Medieval Latin pressa.
Noun
presse c (singular definite pressen, plural indefinite presser)
- a press (a machine for pressing things, like fruits, cloths and books)
- a press (a machine for printing)
- the press (printed media and journalism)
Declension
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | presse | pressen | presser | presserne |
| genitive | presses | pressens | pressers | pressernes |
Derived terms
- lokalpresse
- dagspresse
- verdenspresse
- trykpresse
- pressehetz
References
Etymology 2
Borrowed via German pressen from Latin pressare.
Verb
presse (imperative pres, present tense presser, passive presses, past tense pressede, past participle presset)
Derived terms
References
French
Pronunciation
Noun
presse f (plural presses)
- press, papers (the media)
- La presse contrôle ma vie.
- The press controls my life.
- press (e.g. printing press)
Derived terms
Verb
presse
- inflection of presser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “presse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
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Verb
presse
- inflection of pressen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈprɛs.se/
- Rhymes: -ɛsse
- Hyphenation: près‧se
Noun
presse f
- plural of pressa
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Adverb
pressē (comparative pressius, superlative pressissimē)
Descendants
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pressō
Etymology 2
Participle
presse
- vocative masculine singular of pressus
References
- “presse”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “presse”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- presse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- "presse", 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)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin pressa, via French presse and German Presse.
Noun
presse f or m (definite singular pressa or pressen, indefinite plural presser, definite plural pressene)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
presse (imperative press, present tense presser, passive presses, simple past and past participle pressa or presset, present participle pressende)
Derived terms
References
- “presse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin pressa, via French presse and German Presse.
Noun
presse f (definite singular pressa, indefinite plural presser, definite plural pressene)
Derived terms
References
- “presse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Contraction
presse (plural presses, feminine pressa, feminine plural pressas)
Tarantino
Noun
presse