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): [ɪmˈpɪŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [imˈpiŋ.ɡo]

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

• impāctus
• *impinctus (Vulgar Latin)

Related terms

• pangō

Descendants

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

    Valdôtain: impindre

  • Old French: empeindre, empaindre
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: empènyer, empenyir
  • Occitan: empénher, empénger
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *impinctiare
  • Italian: impinzare
• 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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “impingo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to strike one's head against the wall: caput parieti impingere