pressio Latin · revision 9613

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Caesar|origins=ine-pro *pres-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈprɛs.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈprɛs.si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pressiō''' ''f'' (genitive pressiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[premō]] “to press” (supine ⟨pressum⟩) with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨premō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*pr-es-|t=to press]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Caesar, whom he dates about 50 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was pressure, a pressing down, weight, and the fulcrum of a lever, as in Vitruvius, and Lewis & Short find it literally only in Vitruvius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was pressure, distress, oppression, affliction, persecution.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''pressione'' and Spanish ''presión''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of pressure.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|pressure|alt=Pressure]], a pressing down.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The fulcrum of a lever.^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Distress, oppression.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pressim]]

+ * [[pressō]]

+ * [[pressōrius]]

+ * [[pressulē]]

+ * [[pressulus]]

+ * [[pressūra]]

+ * [[pressus]]

+ * [[premō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}