impresario

• n. （オペラやオーケストラなどの）演奏家; マネージャー; オーケストラの指揮者、監督.

イタリア語のimpresa「引き受ける」「従事する」、im-「入る」「作る」、-pres「つかむ」から省略され、語源的にはprehensile「理解する」と同じ。

impresario

impresario: [18] Impresario has no etymological connection with ‘impressing’ people (often though it is mistakenly spelled impressario). It was borrowed from Italian, where it was a derivative of impresa ‘undertaking’. This in turn came from the verb imprendere ‘undertake’, which goes back to a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *imprendere (source of the archaic English emprise ‘enterprise’ [13]), a compound based on Latin prendere ‘take’. Hence an impresario is literally someone who ‘undertakes’ something.

impresario (n.)

1746, from Italian impresario "operatic manager," literally "undertaker (of a business)," from impresa "undertaking," fem. of impreso, past participle of imprendere "undertake," from Vulgar Latin imprendere, from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, onto" (see in- (2)) + prehendere "to grasp" (see prehensile).

1. He would first have to learn the Italian，engage an impresario ，make contacts.

イタリア語を勉強して、マネージャーを探して、契約書に署名します。

2.The impresario will present an expanded series of concerts next season.

来シーズンは大型のシリーズコンサートを開催する。

3.The impresario had buttoned his astrakhan coat.

楽団マネージャーが子羊の毛皮のコートを掛けた。