pressus: pressio: pressura: compressio (a pressing, pressing together): impetus, vis (force of weight): vis: vexatio: injuria (oppression). The pressure of the atmosphere, *pressus aeris: the pressure of a pen, *nisus: the pressure of the times, iniquitas or injuria temporum: the pressure of age increases, aetas ingravescit: to groan under the pressure of taxes, multitudine tributorum premi: to feel the pressure of the war, incommoda belli sentire.