Where does “prest” come from?
Prest comes from Italian imprestare, from Latin praestare meaning to stand forth or furnish, derived from Latin stare to stand, prefixed with Latin in-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European steh₂- to stand.
prest (English): simple past tense and past participle of press; A...
Definitions
- simple past tense and past participle of press; A...
Ancestry of “prest”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | prest | loan, borrowing; tax, fee, levy; advance payment |
| 2 | Old French | prest | loan; monetary gift |
| 3 | Latin | pressus | pressed, having been pressed, squeezed;... |
| 4 | Latin | premere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | premo | I press; I pursue |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pres- | to press |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
Words derived from “prest”