press-, presso-, pressi-, -prim-, -prin- (Latin: press, to bear down on or against)
pressurize
print
printer
printout
repress
repressible
repressibly
repression
repressive
repressively
repressiveness
reprimand
reprimander
reprint
sprain, sprains, sprained, spraining
Etymology: from Middle French espraindre, espreindre (French epreindre), "to press out", from Old French, from Latin exprimere, from ex-, "out of, from" and premere, "to press".
—Dr. Ernest Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Elsevier Publishing Company, New York, 1967.
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