From Old French empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere.

• IPA: /ˈɪm.pɹɪnt/

imprint (plural imprints)

1. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

   The day left an imprint in my mind.

2. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
3. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

   The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

• French: empreinte
• German: Gepräge, Abdruck, Aufdruck
• Russian: отпеча́ток
• Spanish: impronta

• French: ours, pavé de l'ours
• German: Impressum
• Spanish: editorial

• German: Gepräge, Aufdruck
• Italian: logo, marchio
• Spanish: sello

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

• IPA: /ɪmˈpɹɪnt/

imprint (imprints, present participle imprinting; simple past and past participle imprinted)

1. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.

   For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “No Innate Principles in the Mind”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC ↗, book I, § 23, page 12 ↗:

     For though a Child quickly aſſent to this Propoſition, That an Apple is not Fire; when, by familiar Acquaintance, he has got the Idea's of thoſe two different things diſtinctly imprinted on his Mind, and has learnt that the names Apple and Fire ſtand for them; yet it will be ſome years after, perhaps, before the ſame Child will aſſent to this Propoſition, That it is impoſſible for the ſame thing to be, and not to be.

   • 1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC ↗, page 259 ↗:

     Him great in peace and wealth fair Deva knows; / For ſhe amidſt his ſpacious meadows flows; / Inclines her urn upon his fatten'd lands; / And ſees his num'rous herd imprint her ſands.

   • 1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC ↗, page 189 ↗:

     Nature imprints upon whate'er we ſee / That has a heart and life in it, be free; [...]

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

• German: einprägen, abdrucken, aufdrucken
• Russian: отпечатать