Etymograph

English

impedite

Impedite comes from Latin impeditus ‘hindered’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpeditus‘hindered’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1651impedite

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimpeditus‘hindered’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1651impedite

Earliest quotation: 1651, Jeremy Taylor, [XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summ: “our souls apt to diminution and impedite faculties”.

Every English word from Latin impeditus

Today it means

adj Hindered; obstructed.

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