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
- pressed, having been pressed, squeezed
- suppressed, moderate, slow, having been kept down
- (of the voice) subdued, having been subdued
- (of color) lowered, subdued, gloomy
- compressed, concise, plain
- 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
Descendants
Note: see pressē for related descendants.
From Late Latin *pressia:
Borrowings:
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.