pressus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of premō (“I press”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpres.sus/, [ˈprɛs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpres.sus/, [ˈprɛsːus]
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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pressus | pressa | pressum | pressī | pressae | pressa | |
| Genitive | pressī | pressae | pressī | pressōrum | pressārum | pressōrum | |
| Dative | pressō | pressō | pressīs | ||||
| Accusative | pressum | pressam | pressum | pressōs | pressās | pressa | |
| Ablative | pressō | pressā | pressō | pressīs | |||
| Vocative | presse | pressa | pressum | pressī | pressae | pressa | |
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.