imprimar

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French imprimer, Italian imprimere, Italian imprimir from Latin imprimere.

Verb

imprimar (present tense imprimas, past tense imprimis, future tense imprimos, imperative imprimez, conditional imprimus)

1. (transitive) to print (a book, paper, etc.)
2. (transitive, photography) to print (a positive image from a glass plate or negative film)

Conjugation

Conjugation of imprimar

		present		past		future
infinitive		imprimar		imprimir		imprimor
tense		imprimas		imprimis		imprimos
conditional		imprimus		—		—
imperative		imprimez		—		—
adjective active participle		imprimanta		impriminta		imprimonta
adverbial active participle		imprimante		impriminte		imprimonte
nominal active participle	singular	imprimanto		impriminto		imprimonto
	plural	imprimanti		impriminti		imprimonti
adjective passive participle		imprimata		imprimita		imprimota
adverbial passive participle		imprimate		imprimite		imprimote
nominal passive participle	singular	imprimato		imprimito		imprimoto
	plural	imprimati		imprimiti		imprimoti

Derived terms

• imprimo (“printing”)
• imprimala (“typographic, typographical”)
• imprimerio (“printing works”)
• imprimuro (“printing; imprint, print”)
• imprimilo (“printer (mashine)”)

Latin

Verb

imprimar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of imprimō

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impɾiˈmaɾ/ [ĩm.pɾiˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: im‧pri‧mar

Verb

imprimar (first-person singular present imprimo, first-person singular preterite imprimé, past participle imprimado)

1. (transitive) to prime (to apply a coat of primer paint to)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of imprimar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			imprimar
gerund			imprimando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		imprimado		imprimada
		plural		imprimados		imprimadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	imprimo	imprimastú imprimásvos	imprima	imprimamos	imprimáis	impriman
	imperfect	imprimaba	imprimabas	imprimaba	imprimábamos	imprimabais	imprimaban
	preterite	imprimé	imprimaste	imprimó	imprimamos	imprimasteis	imprimaron
	future	imprimaré	imprimarás	imprimará	imprimaremos	imprimaréis	imprimarán
	conditional	imprimaría	imprimarías	imprimaría	imprimaríamos	imprimaríais	imprimarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	imprime	imprimestú imprimésvos2	imprime	imprimemos	impriméis	imprimen
	imperfect (ra)	imprimara	imprimaras	imprimara	imprimáramos	imprimarais	imprimaran
	imperfect (se)	imprimase	imprimases	imprimase	imprimásemos	imprimaseis	imprimasen
	future1	imprimare	imprimares	imprimare	imprimáremos	imprimareis	imprimaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		imprimatú imprimávos	imprime	imprimemos	imprimad	imprimen
	negative		no imprimes	no imprime	no imprimemos	no impriméis	no imprimen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

• imprimación

Further reading

• “imprimar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10