Etymology

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Today it means: Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications. Full definition →

Middle English *printen
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  1. Middle English · inherited from*printen
  2. English todayprint

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

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