imprint

Meanings

Noun

• An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

Verb

• To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

Origin

• From Old French empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere
• From Middle English emprinten, enprinten, from Old French empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere