impingo

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imˈpin.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -inɡo
  • Hyphenation: im‧pìn‧go

Verb

impingo

  1. 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

  1. to push, strike, dash against
    Synonyms: duco, produco, deduco, induco, ago
  2. (rare) to press upon, force upon
    Synonyms: impellō, compellō, cōgō, perpellō
  3. to force, drive, thrust, push towards a location by force
    Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, iaciō, iactō, trāiciō, iaculor, ēmittō, mittō, abiciō, permittō, lībrō
  4. to beat, thump, strike
    Synonyms: ferio, mulcō, percello, pello, discutio, pulsō, percutio, ico, affligo, caedo, tango, verbero, accido

Conjugation

   Conjugation of impingō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present impingō impingis impingit impingimus impingitis impingunt
imperfect impingēbam impingēbās impingēbat impingēbāmus impingēbātis impingēbant
future impingam impingēs impinget impingēmus impingētis impingent
perfect impēgī impēgistī impēgit impēgimus impēgistis impēgērunt,
impēgēre
pluperfect impēgeram impēgerās impēgerat impēgerāmus impēgerātis impēgerant
future perfect impēgerō impēgeris impēgerit impēgerimus impēgeritis impēgerint
passive present impingor impingeris,
impingere 		impingitur impingimur impingiminī impinguntur
imperfect impingēbar impingēbāris,
impingēbāre 		impingēbātur impingēbāmur impingēbāminī impingēbantur
future impingar impingēris,
impingēre 		impingētur impingēmur impingēminī impingentur
perfect impāctus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect impāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect impāctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present impingam impingās impingat impingāmus impingātis impingant
imperfect impingerem impingerēs impingeret impingerēmus impingerētis impingerent
perfect impēgerim impēgerīs impēgerit impēgerīmus impēgerītis impēgerint
pluperfect impēgissem impēgissēs impēgisset impēgissēmus impēgissētis impēgissent
passive present impingar impingāris,
impingāre 		impingātur impingāmur impingāminī impingantur
imperfect impingerer impingerēris,
impingerēre 		impingerētur impingerēmur impingerēminī impingerentur
perfect impāctus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect impāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — impinge — — impingite —
future — impingitō impingitō — impingitōte impinguntō
passive present — impingere — — impingiminī —
future — impingitor impingitor — — impinguntor
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present impingere impingī impingēns —
future impāctūrum esse impāctum īrī impāctūrus impingendus,
impingundus
perfect impēgisse impāctum esse — impāctus
future perfect — impāctum fore — —
perfect potential impāctūrum fuisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
impingendī impingendō impingendum impingendō impāctum impāctū

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkano-Romance:
    • ⇒ Aromanian: pingu, pindziri (with loss of prefix)
    • Romanian: împinge, împingere
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: emprendre
      Valdôtain: impindre
    • Old French: empeindre, empaindre
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *impinctiare
  • 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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • impingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere
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