impedimenta

English

Etymology

Latin impedimenta, circa 1600. Compare impediment.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪmˌpɛdɪˈmɛntæ/

Noun

impedimenta

  1. Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.
    • Julian Ralph
      On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
    • 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p.20
      Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.
  2. plural of impedimentum

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ “impedimenta” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Latin

Noun

impedīmenta

  1. nominative plural of impedīmentum
  2. accusative plural of impedīmentum
  3. vocative plural of impedīmentum

References

  • impedimenta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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