impeachment

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English empechement (“hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction; legal accusation or charge; act of calling into question or discrediting; challenge to a claim or right”), and thence either: from Middle English empechen, empeschen, empesche, enpechen, impechen (“to cause to get stuck; of a ship: to run aground; to block, obstruct; to hinder, impede; to prevent; to interfere with, harm; to criticize, disparage; to bring charges against; to formally accuse of treason or another high crime”) (from Anglo-Norman empecher, Old French empechier, empeechier) + -ment (suffix forming action nouns, concrete nouns, and nouns indicating a result or a condition or state); or from Old French empechement, empeechement, empeschement (“obstacle”) (modern French empêchement (“impediment, obstacle”)), from empeechier (“to fetter; to hinder”), empescher (“to inhibit, prevent”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs). The English word is analysable as impeach +‎ -ment. Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern French empêcher) are derived from Late Latin impedicāre (“to catch; to entangle”), present active infinitive of Latin impedicō (“to entangle; to fetter”), from im- (variant of in-) + pedica (“fetter, shackle; snare, trap”) (from pēs (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”)) + -ō. In senses 1.2 (“accusation that a person has committed a crime”) and 1.3 (“act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct”), the word has been used in place of Latin impetere, the present active infinitive of impetō (“to assail, attack, rush upon”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/ Hyphenation: im‧peach‧ment === Noun === impeachment (countable and uncountable, plural impeachments) (countable) The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something. Synonyms: deprecation, depreciation, discrediting, disparagement (countable, law) A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now. (countable, law, UK) An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason. (countable, law, chiefly US) The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office. (uncountable) The state of being impeached. (uncountable, archaic) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction. ==== Alternative forms ==== empeachment (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Polish: impeachment → Portuguese: impeachment → Russian: импи́чмент (impíčment)→ Kazakh: импичмент (impiçment) → Spanish: impeachment ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === impeachment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English impeachment, originally to refer to the United States. Doublet of empêchement. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /im.pitʃ.mɛnt/ === Noun === impeachment m (plural impeachments) (law) impeachment (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, in the United States and other countries) == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English impeachment. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /imˈpit͡ʃ.ment/ Rhymes: -itʃment === Noun === impeachment m (invariable) (law) impeachment (act of impeaching a public official) Synonym: messa in stato di accusa == Polish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English impeachment, from Middle English empechement. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /imˈpit͡ʂ.mɛnt/ Rhymes: -it͡ʂmɛnt Syllabification: im‧peach‧ment === Noun === impeachment m inan (law) impeachment (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct) (law) impeachment (state of being impeached) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “impeachment”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “impeachment”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish) == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English impeachment. === Pronunciation === === Noun === impeachment m (plural impeachments) (law, politics) impeachment (the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official) Synonym: impedimento === Further reading === “impeachment”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English impeachment. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /emˈpit͡ʃment/ [ẽmˈpit͡ʃ.mẽn̪t̪] Rhymes: -itʃment === Noun === impeachment m (plural impeachments) impeachment (political trial) (especially in reference to the political systems of English-speaking countries) Alternative forms: impichmen, impechmen Synonyms: destitución, impugnación ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. === Further reading === Moreno Fernández, Francisco (2018), “impeachment”, in Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense‎[5] (overall work in Spanish), New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, →DOI, →ISBN‎[6]