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English borrowed impresario directly from Italian, whose noun impresa means "undertaking." A close relative is the English word emprise ("an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise"), which, like impresario, traces back to the Latin verb prehendere, meaning "to seize." (That verb is also the source of apprehend, comprehend, and prehensile.) English speakers were impressed enough with impresario to borrow it in the 1700s, at first using it, as the Italians did, especially of opera company managers. It should be noted that, despite their apparent similarities, impress and impresario are not related. Impress is a descendant of the Latin pressare, a form of the verb premere, which means "to press."
Examples of impresario in a Sentence
Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Jones, who died on Sunday night at 91 in Los Angeles, had already been a formidable impresario in music and TV for decades before pairing up with Jackson, a former child prodigy struggling with his pivot into adulthood.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
The one-off doc from Emporium Productions explores the events that led to the tragic sinking of the superyacht Bayesian, which killed tech impresario Mike Lynch and six others, and what implications there may be for passengers taking a charter voyage or cruise in the future.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
Goldwyn is now married to Jeff Klein, the hospitality impresario behind the Sunset Tower.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Impresario.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impresario. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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