pressorium

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

pressōrium n (genitive pressōriī or pressōrī); second declension

  1. press (especially for grapes)

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pressōrium pressōria
Genitive pressōriī
pressōrī1
pressōriōrum
Dative pressōriō pressōriīs
Accusative pressōrium pressōria
Ablative pressōriō pressōriīs
Vocative pressōrium pressōria

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

Descendants[edit]

  • French: pressoir
  • Welsh: prysur

References[edit]

  • 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