pressura
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
pressura
- third-person singular past historic of pressurer
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From pressō (“I press”), from pressus, perfect passive participle of premō (“I press”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /presˈsuː.ra/, [prɛs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /presˈsu.ra/, [presˈsuːrä]
Noun[edit]
pressūra f (genitive pressūrae); first declension
- a pressing, pressure
- throng, crowd
- an unnaturally long or heavy sleep
- (poetic) juice; that which is pressed out
- (figuratively) a burden
- (figuratively) oppression, affliction, distress
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pressūra | pressūrae |
Genitive | pressūrae | pressūrārum |
Dative | pressūrae | pressūrīs |
Accusative | pressūram | pressūrās |
Ablative | pressūrā | pressūrīs |
Vocative | pressūra | pressūrae |
Synonyms[edit]
- (a pressing): pressiō
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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)
- pressura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- pressura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016