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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imˈpin.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -inɡo
- Hyphenation: im‧pìn‧go
Verb
impingo
- first-person singular present indicative of impingere
Latin
Etymology
From in- + pangō (“fasten, drive in”).
Pronunciation
Verb
impingō (present infinitive impingere, perfect active impēgī, supine impāctum); third conjugation
- to push, strike, dash against
- Synonyms: duco, produco, deduco, induco, ago
- (rare) to press upon, force upon
- Synonyms: impellō, compellō, cōgō, perpellō
- to force, drive, thrust, push towards a location by force
- Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, iaciō, iactō, trāiciō, iaculor, ēmittō, mittō, abiciō, permittō, lībrō
- to beat, thump, strike
- Synonyms: ferio, percello, pello, discutio, pulsō, percutio, ico, affligo, caedo, tango, verbero, accido
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Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
Further reading
- “impingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impingo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- impingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere