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"impression" in seven languages

Meaningimpression

Spanish

impresión

/impɾeˈsjon/

fem.learned

French

impression

/ɛ̃pʁesjɔ̃/

fem.learned

Also 'printing': une imprimante is a printer.

Italian

impressione

/impresˈsjone/

fem.learned

Portuguese

impressão

/ĩpɾeˈsɐ̃w/

fem.learned

Romanian

impresie

/imˈpresie/

fem.learned

Catalan

impressió

/impɾəsiˈo/

fem.learned

English

impression

/ɪmˈpɹɛʃən/

from Latin/French · Old French impression, from Latin

English → ItalianimpressionimpressioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

IMPRESSIŌNEM‘a pressing into (IMPRIMERE)’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

From IMPRIMERE 'to press into', the root of print. All four make a good impression the same way, and all four can also mean the printing of a book.

English relatives: impress, print, press

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In a sentence

  • esCausó muy buena impresión.
  • frElle a fait bonne impression.
  • itHa fatto una buona impressione.
  • ptEla causou uma ótima impressão.
  • roA făcut o impresie foarte bună.
  • caVa causar molt bona impressió.
  • enShe made a good impression.

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