presso
See also: pressò
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Vulgar Latin *pressō, from Latin presse (“narrow, short”).[1] Cognate with Walloon and French près.
Adverb edit
presso
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Preposition edit
presso
- near
- Synonym: vicino a
- beside, next to, by
- at, with
- among, with
- (mail) care of (always followed by di)
- Synonym: c/o
Adjective edit
presso (invariable)
Adjective edit
presso (feminine pressa, masculine plural pressi, feminine plural presse)
Noun edit
presso m (plural pressi)
References edit
- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951
Further reading edit
- presso1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin pressus, perfect passive participle of premō (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to hit”).
Participle edit
presso (feminine pressa, masculine plural pressi, feminine plural presse)
- (archaic) past participle of premere: (having been) pressed, compressed
Further reading edit
- presso2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
presso
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpres.soː/, [ˈprɛs̠ːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpres.so/, [ˈprɛsːo]
Etymology 1 edit
From premō + -tō (through its perfect passive participle pressus).
Verb edit
pressō (present infinitive pressāre, perfect active pressāvī, supine pressātum); first conjugation
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: premsar
- → Danish: presse (via Medieval Latin), pressere (via Middle French)
- → Dutch: pressen (via Medieval Latin), presseren (via Middle French)
- → English: press
- French: presser
- → German: pressen (via Medieval Latin), pressieren (via Middle French)
- → Greek: πρεσάρω (presáro)
- Haitian Creole: prese
- Italian: pressare
- → Norwegian:
- Portuguese: prensar
- → Russian: прессовать (pressovatʹ)
- Romanian: presa
- → Serbo-Croatian
- Spanish: prensar
- → Swedish: pressa (via Medieval Latin)
- → Ukrainian: прессувати (pressuvaty)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle edit
pressō
References edit
- “presso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “presso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers