impactus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪmˈpaːk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [imˈpak.tus] === Etymology 1 === From impingō (“I strike against”) +‎ -tus (abstract noun suffix). ==== Noun ==== impāctus m (genitive impāctūs); fourth declension (New Latin) illision, collision, hit impact, effect ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== → Catalan: impacte → English: impact → French: impact → Galician: impacto → German: Impakt → Italian: impatto → Portuguese: impacto → Sicilian: mpattu → Spanish: impacto ==== References ==== R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “impactus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[3], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC === Etymology 2 === Perfect passive participle of impingō. ==== Participle ==== impāctus (feminine impācta, neuter impāctum); first/second-declension participle having been thrust having been forced, pressed upon having been pushed, dashed against ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ==== References ==== “impactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “impactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “impactus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.