pressura

• Homophones: pressuras, pressurât

pressura

1. third-person singular past historic of pressurer

From pressō (“I press”), from pressus, perfect passive participle of premō (“I press”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /presˈsuː.ra/, [prɛs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /presˈsu.ra/, [presˈsuːrä]

pressūra f (genitive pressūrae); first declension

1. a pressing, pressure
2. throng, crowd
3. an unnaturally long or heavy sleep
4. (poetic) juice; that which is pressed out
5. (figuratively) a burden
6. (figuratively) oppression, affliction, distress

First-declension noun.

• (a pressing): pressiō

• Catalan: pressura
• Old French: pressure
  • → English: pressure
• Italian: pressura
• Spanish: presura

• “pressura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pressura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pressura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pressura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016