pressura
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: pressuras, pressurât
Verb
pressura
- third-person singular past historic of pressurer
Latin
Etymology
From pressō (“I press”), from pressus, perfect passive participle of premō (“I press”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /presˈsuː.ra/, [prɛs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /presˈsu.ra/, [presˈsuːrä]
Noun
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
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
- (a pressing): pressiō
Related terms
- pressim
- pressiō
- pressō
- pressōrius
- pressulē
- pressulus
- pressus
Descendants
- Catalan: pressura
- Old French: pressure
- → English: pressure
- Italian: pressura
- Spanish: presura
References
- “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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016