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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la premō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈprɛs.soː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈprɛs.so]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''pressō''' (present infinitive pressāre, perfect active pressāvī, supine pressātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is a frequentative of [[premō]] “to press” with the suffix -tō, built on its participle [[pressus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Lewis and Short cite Plautus, of pressing an abscess.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to press, exert pressure on, as in Lucretius, of a load to weigh down, as in Plautus, to press against something, as Ovid's ashes pressed to the breast, and to squeeze, as Virgil's milking of the udder.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short call it poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Furius Antias has ''pressātur pede pēs'' “foot is pressed by foot”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to distress, press.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in French ''presser'', Italian ''pressare'' and Spanish ''prensar''.^(Wiktionary) Through Old French it is the source of [[en|press]] about 1300.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of pressing and weighing down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of pressure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of milking.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English ''press'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|press]]; to weigh down.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To press (against).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|squeeze]]; to milk.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[compressō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[premō]]
+ * [[pressūra]]
+ * [[en|press]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}