imprimatur
See also: imprimátur
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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/, /ɪmpɹɪˈmɑtʊɹ/[4], /ɪmˈpɹɪmətɚ/, /ɪmˈpɹɪmətʊɹ/[5]
,Audio (US): (file) Audio (US): (file)
Noun
editimprimatur (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.
- 2024 May 18, Jane Shaw, “When belief is a business”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 8:
- The author suggests that Grace is hoping to meet at church a respectable marriage candidate who will have the imprimatur of her pastor and the church community.
Translations
editofficial license to publish
|
any mark of official approval
References
edit- ^ “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
editNoun
editimprimatur n
Declension
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editimprimatur 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
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin imprimātur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editimprimatur
- (Catholicism) imprimatur, an official license to publish or print something.
See also
editFurther 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 of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /im.priˈmaː.tur/, [ɪmprɪˈmäːt̪ʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.priˈma.tur/, [impriˈmäːt̪ur]
Verb
editimprimātur
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