impresa
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian impresa.
Noun
editimpresa (plural impresas)
- (heraldry) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate etc.
- 1613, John Webster, “A Monumental Column, A Funeral Elegy” in Three Elegies on the most lamented Death of Prince Henrie, London: William Welbie,[1]
- My impresa to your lordship; a swan
- Flying to a laurel for shelter.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost[2], Book 9, lines 33-35:
- […] or to describe Races and Games,
Or tilting Furniture, emblazon’d Shields,
Impreses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds;
- 1613, John Webster, “A Monumental Column, A Funeral Elegy” in Three Elegies on the most lamented Death of Prince Henrie, London: William Welbie,[1]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impresa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editParticiple
editimpresa f sg
Italian
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /imˈpre.za/, (traditional) /imˈpre.sa/[1]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -eza, (traditional) -esa
- Hyphenation: im‧pré‧sa
Etymology 1
editDeverbal formed with the feminine past participle of imprendere, a less common alternative for intraprendere (“to undertake”). Cognate with Sicilian mprisa.
Noun
editimpresa f (plural imprese)
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editFurther reading
edit- impresa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
editimpresa f sg
References
edit- ^ impresa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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editSpanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editimpresa f (plural impresas)
Adjective
editimpresa
Participle
editimpresa f sg
Further reading
edit- “impresa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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