07/04/2025
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Here's another "Word of the day" by Merriam Webster! ๐ฅฐ
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Concerts, music festivals, television series, professional wrestling matchesโthese are quite the undertakings. Luckily, thereโs a word for the impressive individuals responsible for organizing and overseeing such productions: impresario. In the 1700s, English borrowed impresario directly from Italian, whose noun impresa means โundertaking.โ (A close relative is the English word emprise, โan adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise,โ which, like impresario, traces back to the Latin verb prehendere, meaning โto seize.โ) At first English speakers used impresario as the Italians did, to refer to opera company managers, though today it is used much more broadly. It should be noted that, despite their apparent similarities, impress and impresario are not related. Impress is a descendant of the Latin verb pressare, a form of the word premere, meaning โto press.โ
Impresario in Context
โWhen he stepped on stage during a comedy open mic at Castle Street spot The Barzarre in June of 2022, Louis Maynor, better known as Louis Tee, was mainly known as a producer, a hip-hop impresario whoโd been staging shows and concerts around Wilmington since the late 1990s.โ โ John Staton, The Wilmington (North Carolina) Star-News, 21 Dec. 2023
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