A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Prelum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. prelo; also praelum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. praelo: a press; a printing press; “a press-beam for pressing grapes, olives, etc.; also a wine-press, oil-press; a press for smoothing clothes” (Lewis & Short) [> premo,-essi,-essum 3, to press; to bear down upon, to touch; to hold fast, grasp; to mark with anything];

- Palladii Opus agriculturae 3,25,11: VINVM PIRI ET ACETVM. Vinum de piris fit, si contusa et sacco rarissimo condita ponderibus conprimantur aut prelo, Palladius’ work on agriculture 3,25,11: ‘a wine and vinegar [i.e. sour wine] of the pear. A wine is made from the pears, if crushed and [stored, collected] in a loosely woven sack [i.e. bag to strain liquids], they are pressed together with weights or a press.

(printing press):

- praelo Sheldoniano paratur = prepared at the Sheldonian press (Maxwell 1998).

- timidi committere praelo non impressores audebant = “the frightened printers did not dare to commit [the book] to the press)” (Maxwell 1998).

- Ulyssipone. Superiorum permissu. ex praelo Antonii Craesbeeck; at Lisbon. With the permission [i.e. authorization] of the superiors, from the [printing] press of Antony Craesbeeck.