English
pressmark
From press + mark.
Latin premō ‘to press’
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Latin pressō ‘to press’
Old French presser ‘to press’
Old French presse
Middle English presse ‘throng, crowd, clothespress’
English press
Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs ‘edge’
Proto-Germanic *markō ‘boundary’
Proto-West Germanic *marku ‘boundary’
Old English mearc ‘mark’
Middle English mark
English mark
Today it means
noun The logo of a publishing press.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pressmark”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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