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presă
press (the news media) /ˈpre.sə/
noun#2164 most common
Also: printing press, pressing machine (e.g. hydraulic press)
Example sentences
Tata citește presa dimineața.
Dad reads the press in the morning.
Presa a scris despre acest eveniment.
The press wrote about this event.
Libertatea presei este foarte importantă într-o democrație.
Freedom of the press is very important in a democracy.
Ministrul a dat o declarație pentru presă.
The minister gave a statement to the press.
Presa de tipar a revoluționat răspândirea informației.
The printing press revolutionized the spread of information.
Relația dintre putere și presă a fost mereu una tensionată, marcată de încercări constante de manipulare.
The relationship between power and the press has always been a tense one, marked by constant attempts at manipulation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | presă | prese |
| Genitive | presei | preselor |
| Accusative | presă | prese |
| Vocative | presă | prese |
Word family
Etymology
Presă entered Romanian from French presse in the nineteenth century, during the period when Romanian deliberately absorbed French and Latin vocabulary to modernize the language. French presse descends from Latin pressare, a frequentative form of premere, meaning to press or squeeze. The sense narrowed to the printing press and then widened again to mean the news media as a whole, a shift that also happened in French and English.
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