English
pressrun
From press + run.
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 *h₃reyH- ‘to boil, churn’
Proto-Germanic *rinnaną ‘to run’
Old English rinnan ‘to run’
Middle English rinnen ‘to run’
Middle English runnen ‘to run’
English run
Today it means
noun The number of copies of a publication printed at one time.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pressrun”. 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.
Etymograph / pressrun