Translation
to print
Word origin
From French presser and English press, both from Latin pressare, a frequentative of premere ('to press'). Printing took its name from the physical act of pressing inked type onto paper, and English print came the same way through Old French preinte.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- pressare
- English cognates
- press, print, pressure, express
Examples
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The magazine printed his letter on the first page.
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They printed the new book before the congress.
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This machine can print a hundred pages in a minute.
is the mechanical act, so a machine or a printer's shop does it: o is a printer, o a print works, and preso the printing itself. Keep it apart from eldoni, to publish, which is the decision to put a work into the world rather than the ink on the page. A publisher a book and a printer it, and the two can be different people entirely.
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