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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of premō (“I press”).
Pronunciation
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.
Derived terms
Descendants
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.