impendeo

Latin

Alternative forms

• inpendeō

Etymology

From in- +‎ pendeō (“I am suspended, hang”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /imˈpen.de.oː/, [ɪmˈpɛn̪d̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈpen.de.o/, [imˈpɛn̪d̪eo]

Verb

impendeō (present infinitive impendēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. to hang over, overhang
2. to hover over, threaten, impend; to be imminent

Conjugation

   Conjugation of impendeō (second conjugation, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	impendeō		impendēs		impendet		impendēmus		impendētis		impendent
	imperfect	impendēbam		impendēbās		impendēbat		impendēbāmus		impendēbātis		impendēbant
	future	impendēbō		impendēbis		impendēbit		impendēbimus		impendēbitis		impendēbunt
passive	present	impendeor		impendēris, impendēre		impendētur		impendēmur		impendēminī		impendentur
	imperfect	impendēbar		impendēbāris, impendēbāre		impendēbātur		impendēbāmur		impendēbāminī		impendēbantur
	future	impendēbor		impendēberis, impendēbere		impendēbitur		impendēbimur		impendēbiminī		impendēbuntur
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	impendeam		impendeās		impendeat		impendeāmus		impendeātis		impendeant
	imperfect	impendērem		impendērēs		impendēret		impendērēmus		impendērētis		impendērent
passive	present	impendear		impendeāris, impendeāre		impendeātur		impendeāmur		impendeāminī		impendeantur
	imperfect	impendērer		impendērēris, impendērēre		impendērētur		impendērēmur		impendērēminī		impendērentur
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		impendē		—		—		impendēte		—
	future	—		impendētō		impendētō		—		impendētōte		impendentō
passive	present	—		impendēre		—		—		impendēminī		—
	future	—		impendētor		impendētor		—		—		impendentor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		impendēre			impendērī			impendēns			—
future		—			—			—			impendendus
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		impendendī		impendendō		impendendum		impendendō		—		—

Related terms

• circumpendeō
• dēpendeō
• pendeō
• praependeō
• prōpendeō

Descendants

• English: impend

See also

• impendō

References

• “impendeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “impendeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impendeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a sword hangs over his neck: gladius cervicibus impendet
    
  • (ambiguous) dangers threaten a man: pericula alicui impendent, imminent
    
  • (ambiguous) to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere
    
  • (ambiguous) the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus ruina impendet
    
  • (ambiguous) a war is imminent: bellum impendet, imminet, instat