pressorium

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Latin

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Noun

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pressōrium n (genitive pressōriī or pressōrī); second declension

  1. press (especially for grapes)

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

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  • French: pressoir
  • Welsh: prysur

References

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  • pressorium 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)
  • pressorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers