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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin impedimenta, circa 1600. Compare impediment.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
impedimenta
- Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.
1892, Julian Ralph, On Canada's Frontier:On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: A Surprise at Didcot”, in Railway Magazine, page 452:Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 20:Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.
- plural of impedimentum
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Latin
Noun
impedīmenta n
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of impedīmentum (“hindrance, impediment, heavy baggage”)
References
- “impedimenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers