Etymology

reimpress

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Today it means: To impress again or anew. Full definition →

English impress ← Middle English impressen ← Latin impressus
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  7. Proto-Italic*en
  8. Proto-Italic*en-
  9. Latinin-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*per-?
  11. Proto-Indo-European*pres-
  12. Proto-Italic*pres-
  13. Latinpremō
  14. Latinimprimō
  15. Latinimpressus
  16. Middle Englishimpressen
  17. Englishimpress
  18. English todayreimpress

From re- + impress.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.