Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium. · Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive. · The letters forming the text of a document. · A newspaper.
To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine. · To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image. · To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive. · To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
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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This page abbreviates 18 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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