Where does “impresstaurant” come from?
impresstaurant (English) comes from English impress, from Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, from Latin imprimo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
impresstaurant (English): An upscale restaurant where one might take somebody to impress them
Definitions
- An upscale restaurant where one might take somebody to impress them
Ancestry of “impresstaurant”, step by step
impresstaurant traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English impress
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | impress | To affect strongly and often favourably; To make... |
| 2 | Middle English | impressen | — |
| 3 | Latin | impressus | pressed, printed, imprinted, stamped |
| 4 | Latin | imprimo | I press, impress; I print, imprint, stamp |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English restaurant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | restaurant | An eating establishment in which diners are... |
| 2 | French | restaurant | restaurant; present participle of restaurer |
| 3 | Latin | restaurans | restoring |
| 4 | Latin | restauro | I restore, rebuild, reestablish, renew |
| 5 | Latin | re- | back, backwards; again; prefix added to various... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wret- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |