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Impression comes from Old French impression, from Latin impressiō, from imprimō ‘to press, impress’, from premō ‘to press’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pres-¹‘to press’uncertain
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pres-¹uncertain
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpremō¹‘to press’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimprimō¹‘to press, impress’
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpressiō¹
6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400impression¹
7. Englishearliest quotation 1748impression¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English impression
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1748, David Hume, Of the Origin of Ideas: “Let us, therefore, use a little freedom, and call…”.