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presiune
pressure /presiˈune/
noun#1470 most common
Also: stress (figurative pressure), tension (physical force per area)
Example sentences
Presiunea este mare.
The pressure is high.
Trebuie să verific presiunea din cauciucuri.
I need to check the tire pressure.
Medicul mi-a măsurat presiunea sângelui.
The doctor measured my blood pressure.
Sub presiunea colegilor, a acceptat oferta.
Under pressure from his colleagues, he accepted the offer.
Presiunea atmosferică scade odată cu altitudinea.
Atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude.
Guvernul se confruntă cu presiuni tot mai mari din partea opiniei publice pentru a reforma sistemul de pensii.
The government faces growing pressure from public opinion to reform the pension system.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | presiune | presiuni |
| Genitive | presiunii | presiunilor |
| Accusative | presiune | presiuni |
| Vocative | presiune | presiuni |
Word family
a presato press
presăpress (machine, or the news media)presatpressed; under time pressure
opresiuneoppression
compresiecompression
Etymology
Presiune comes from French pression, itself from Latin pressio, pressionem, a noun built on the verb premere, meaning to press. Romanian absorbed this word during the 19th-century modernization of its vocabulary, when many abstract and scientific terms were borrowed from French and Latin. The Latin root premere traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to strike or press.
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