impedimentum

Borrowed from Latin impedimentum.

impedimentum m (plural impedimenta)

1. (chiefly in the plural) impediment, hindrance
2. (chiefly in the plural) impedimentum (large and cumbersome luggage)

   Synonym: impédiment

   Hypernym: bagage

• “impedimentum” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “impedimenta” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “impedimenta” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “impedimenta” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “impedimentum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From impedio +‎ -mentum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.pɛ.diːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.pe.d̪iˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

impedīmentum n (genitive impedīmentī); second declension

1. impediment, hindrance

   Synonyms: obstāculum, mora

2. (usually in the plural) luggage, equipage

   Synonyms: sarcina, vasum

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.10:

     Duabus Agendici legionibus atque impedimentis totius exer citus (exercitus) relictis ad Boios proficiscitur

     having left two legions and the luggage of the entire army in Agendicum, he departures to the Boii

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “impedimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “impedimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impedimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.