English
impressionableness
Impressionableness comes from French impressionnable ‘impressionable’, and goes back to Latin premō ‘to press, push, press close or hard, oppress,…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpremō‘to press, push, press close or hard, oppress, overwhelm’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprimō‘to press, impress’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpressiōnem
- Frenchc. 1600–presentimpression‘an impression, the overall effect of something’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentimpressionner‘to impress, to wow, to awe’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentimpressionnable‘impressionable’
- English1500–presentimpressionable
- Englishtodayimpressionableness
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpremō‘to press, push, press close or hard, oppress, overwhelm’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprimō‘to press, impress’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpressiōnem
- Frenchc. 1600–presentimpression‘an impression, the overall effect of something’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentimpressionner‘to impress, to wow, to awe’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentimpressionnable‘impressionable’
- English1500–presentimpressionable
- Englishtodayimpressionableness
A compound of impressionable + -ness
Latin premō ‘to press, push, press close or hard, oppress,…’
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Latin impressiōnem
French impression ‘an impression, the overall effect of something’
French impressionner ‘to impress, to wow, to awe’
French impressionnable
English impressionable
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pres- ‘to press’
first, expression, frist, 34 more
through Proto-Italic *pres-
pressure, express, depression, oppression, compression, suppression, depressive, compress, depress, repress, 35 more
through Latin premō ‘to press, push, press close or hard, oppress,…’
press, pregnant, imprint, sprain, reprimand, 45 more
through Latin imprimō ‘to press, impress’
Today it means
noun The quality of being impressionable.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin premō / impressionableness