different between imprimatur vs imprimantur

English

Etymology

From Latin imprim?tur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??m.p???me?.t?/, /??m.p???m??.t?/, /??m.p???m??.t??/, /??m.p???me?.t??/, /?m?p??m?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??m.p???m?.t?/, /??m.p???me?.t?/, /?mpr??m?t??/, /?m?pr?m?t?/, /?m?pr?m?t??/
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Noun

imprimatur (plural imprimaturs or imprimantur)

1. (printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
   • 1664, John Wilson, The Cheats, publication info page:

     The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson
2. (by extension) Any mark of official approval.

   Synonyms: approval, authorization, endorsement

   • 1988, New York Times, Gay fiction comes home, [1]:

     Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.

Translations

References

Czech

Noun

imprimatur n

1. imprimatur

French

Etymology

From Latin imprim?tur (“let it be printed”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?i.ma.ty?/

Noun

imprimatur m (plural imprimaturs)

1. imprimatur

   Donner son imprimatur.

Further reading

• “imprimatur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin imprim?tur (“let it be printed”), third person singular present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to imprint”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imprimatur/
• Hyphenation: im?pri?ma?tur

Noun

imprimatur

1. (Catholicism) imprimatur, an official license to publish or print something.

Further reading

• “imprimatur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im.pri?ma?.tur/, [?mp???mä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.pri?ma.tur/, [imp?i?m??t?ur]

Verb

imprim?tur

1. third-person singular present passive subjunctive of imprim?

English

Etymology

From Latin imprimantur (“let them be printed”), third-person plural present subjunctive passive form of imprimere (“to print”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m.p???mæn.t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m.p???mæn.t??/

Noun

imprimantur

1. (rare) plural of imprimatur
   • 1738: John Bancks, The Author’s Picture. A fourth Epistle to Mr. Pope., 14^th verse, lines 7–12

     Then thus we sum up our affairs:

     That, notwithstanding former airs,

     The most I seriously would hope,

     Is, just to read the words, A Pope,

     Writ, without sneer, or shew of banter,

     Beneath your friendly Imprimantur.

   • ? (1799–1833): J. Souter et alii, The London Medical and Physical Journal, p381

     …among other pleasing circumstances, let our constant correspondent the indefatigable Mr. Ring, derive an unmixed gratification from learning that his writings, together with those of the Society in which he incessantly labours, receive the imprimantur of the Physician General at Madras.

   • 1836: William Cowper & Robert Southey, The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations. With a Life of the Author, p38

     You are perfectly at liberty to deal with them as you please. Auctore tantum anonymo, imprimantur; and when printed, send me a copy⁴¹.

   • 1891: Robert Williams Buchanan, The Coming Terror and Other Essays and Letters, p108

     …any literature touching upon it is to be condignly abolished Imprimantur, the revised New Testament, the ‘Lamplighter’, and the tracts of Christian knowledge.

   • 2005: William Cowper, The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters and Poems, p140

     …imprimantur; and when printed but for half an hour, yet, without boasting…

Latin

Verb

imprimantur

1. third-person plural present passive subjunctive of imprim?