depress
/dɪˈpɹes/dih-PRES
/dɪˈpɹɛs/dih-PRES
Meaningto press down
Common meaning: to make sad
Other meanings: to push down
- dedown, away, off; undoing
- pressto pressLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1440 · scan
‘down, away, off’ + ‘to press’ → depress
Journey through time
- Latindepressus‘pressed down’source
- Englishdepress‘to make sad’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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Origin: Built on Latin premō ‘to press’.
Roots
- premō, pressī, pressum Latin “to press”
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