imprimatur
See also: imprimátur
English
Etymology
From Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
imprimatur (plural imprimaturs or imprimantur)
- (printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
- 1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page:
- The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:
- Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences, whether the Author, who ſtands by in perplexity at the foot of his Epiſtle, ſhall to the Preſſe or to the ſpunge.
- 1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page:
- (by extension) Any mark of official approval.
- Synonyms: approval, authorization, endorsement
- 1988, New York Times, Gay fiction comes home, [1]:
- Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.
- 2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.
Translations
official license to publish
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any mark of official approval
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References
Czech
Noun
imprimatur n
French
Etymology
From Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”).
Pronunciation
Noun
imprimatur m (plural imprimaturs)
- imprimatur
- Donner son imprimatur.
Further reading
- “imprimatur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).
Pronunciation
Noun
imprimatur
- (Catholicism) imprimatur, an official license to publish or print something.
Further reading
- “imprimatur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /im.priˈmaː.tur/, [ɪmprɪˈmäːt̪ʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.priˈma.tur/, [impriˈmäːt̪ur]
Verb
(deprecated template usage) imprimātur
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