imprimatur
See also: imprimátur
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmeɪ.tə/[1], /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑː.tə/[2], /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑː.tʊə/[3], /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmeɪ.tʊə/, /ɪmˈpɹɪmətə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmɑ.tɚ/, /ˌɪm.pɹɪˈmeɪ.tɚ/, /ɪmprɪˈmɑtʊɹ/[4], /ɪmˈprɪmətɚ/, /ɪmˈprɪmətʊɹ/[5]
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Noun edit
imprimatur (plural imprimaturs or imprimantur)
- (printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
- 1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page:
- The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:
- Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences, whether the Author, who ſtands by in perplexity at the foot of his Epiſtle, ſhall to the Preſſe or to the ſpunge.
- 1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page:
- (by extension) Any mark of official approval.
- Synonyms: approval, authorization, endorsement
- 1988, New York Times, Gay fiction comes home[1]:
- Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.
- 2015 March 30, Michael Billington, “Look Back in Anger: how John Osborne liberated theatrical language”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.
Translations edit
official license to publish
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any mark of official approval
References edit
- ^ chapter 92762, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.“imprimatur”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “imprimatur”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “imprimatur”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “imprimatur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “imprimatur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Czech edit
Noun edit
imprimatur n
Declension edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
imprimatur m (plural imprimaturs)
- imprimatur
- Donner son imprimatur.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Further reading edit
- “imprimatur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
imprimatur
- (Catholicism) imprimatur, an official license to publish or print something.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “imprimatur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /im.priˈmaː.tur/, [ɪmprɪˈmäːt̪ʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.priˈma.tur/, [impriˈmäːt̪ur]
Verb edit
imprimātur