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Compress

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to press or squeeze something into a smaller space
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Stage 1 of 2
comprimere
Latin · ancient
"to press together"
to press together, from com- (together) and premere (to press)
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Stage 2 of 2
compress
English · 1400s
"to squeeze something into a smaller space"
settled as the English word for squeezing something into a smaller space
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