pressulus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-?

Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.

Proto-Italic *pres-

Latin premō

Latin pressus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin pressulus

From pressus + -ulus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛs.sʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɛs.su.lus]

Adjective

pressulus (feminine pressula, neuter pressulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of pressus: somewhat pressed in or compressed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pressulus	pressula	pressulum		pressulī	pressulae	pressula
genitive	pressulī	pressulae	pressulī		pressulōrum	pressulārum	pressulōrum
dative	pressulō	pressulae	pressulō		pressulīs
accusative	pressulum	pressulam	pressulum		pressulōs	pressulās	pressula
ablative	pressulō	pressulā	pressulō		pressulīs
vocative	pressule	pressula	pressulum		pressulī	pressulae	pressula

Descendants

• → Italian: pressulo (archaic)

References

• “pressulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "pressulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pressulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pressulus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016