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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /imˈpin.ɡoː/, [ɪmˈpɪŋɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈpin.ɡo/, [imˈpiŋɡo]

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, 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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		impingere	impēgisse	impāctūrum esse	impingī	impāctum esse	impāctum īrī
participles		impingēns	—	impāctūrus	—	impāctus	impingendus, impingundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		impingendī	impingendō	impingendum	impingendō	impāctum	impāctū

Derived terms

• impāctus
• *impinctus

Related terms

• pangō

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • ⇒ Aromanian: pingu, pindziri (with loss of prefix)
  • Romanian: împinge, împingere
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: impingere, impignere (rare)
  • Sicilian: mpìnciri
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: emprendre

    Valdôtain: impindre

  • Old French: empeindre, empaindre
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: empènyer, empenyir
  • Occitan: empénher, empénger
• Borrowings:
  • → English: impinge
  • → Portuguese: impingir

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭmpĭngĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 589

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere