impresa

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian impresa.

Noun

impresa (plural impresas)

  1. (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;

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Participle

impresa f sg

  1. feminine singular of imprès

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imˈpre.za/, (traditional) /imˈpre.sa/[1]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eza, (traditional) -esa
  • Hyphenation: im‧pré‧sa

Etymology 1

Deverbal formed with the feminine past participle of imprendere, a less common alternative for intraprendere (“to undertake”). Cognate with Sicilian mprisa.

Noun

impresa f (plural imprese)

  1. enterprise, undertaking, exploit, feat, endeavour/endeavor
  2. company, firm, business, concern
    Synonyms: azienda, ditta, società
Descendants
  • → Polish: impreza
  • → Spanish: empresa
Further reading
  • impresa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

impresa f sg

  1. feminine singular of impreso

References

  1. ^ impresa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imˈpɾesa/ [ĩmˈpɾe.sa]
  • Rhymes: -esa
  • Syllabification: im‧pre‧sa

Noun

impresa f (plural impresas)

  1. obsolete spelling of empresa

Adjective

impresa

  1. feminine singular of impreso

Participle

impresa f sg

  1. feminine singular of impreso

Further reading

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