"impressed" in seven languages
Meaningimpressed
Spanish
impresionado
/impɾesjoˈnado/
learned
French
impressionné
/ɛ̃pʁesjɔne/
learned
Italian
impressionato
/impressjoˈnato/
learned
Can also mean 'shaken, upset'; rimanere colpito is a common alternative for 'impressed'.
Portuguese
impressionado
/ĩpɾesjoˈnadu/
learned
Romanian
impresionat
/impresioˈnat/
borrowed · impresiona, from French impressionner
Catalan
impressionat
/impɾəsiuˈnat/
learned
English
impressed
/ɪmˈpɹɛst/
from Latin/French · Latin IMPRESSUS, partly via Old French
English → ItalianimpressedimpressionatoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
IMPRESSIŌNEM‘a pressing in, an imprint’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
The verbs impresionar, impressionner, impressionare were built on 'impression', a mark pressed into the mind. Italian keeps the Latin double s.
English relatives: impression, impressive, press, print
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In a sentence
- esSu discurso me dejó muy impresionado.
- frJ'ai été très impressionné par son discours.
- itSono rimasto molto impressionato dal suo discorso.
- ptFiquei muito impressionado com o discurso dela.
- roAm fost foarte impresionat de discursul ei.
- caEl seu discurs em va deixar molt impressionat.
- enI was very impressed by her speech.