pressura

French

Pronunciation

Verb

pressura

  1. 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/, [prɛsˈsuː.ra]

Noun

pressūra f (genitive pressūrae); first declension

  1. a pressing, pressure
  2. throng, crowd
  3. an unnaturally long or heavy sleep
  4. (poetic) juice; that which is pressed out
  5. (figuratively) a burden
  6. (figuratively) oppression, affliction, distress

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pressūra pressūrae
Genitive pressūrae pressūrārum
Dative pressūrae pressūrīs
Accusative pressūram pressūrās
Ablative pressūrā pressūrīs
Vocative pressūra pressūrae

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Descendants

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, 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
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