impone
See also: imponé
English
Etymology
Latin imponere, impositum (“to place upon”); prefix im- (“in”) + ponere (“to place”). See position.
Verb
impone (third-person singular simple present impones, present participle imponing, simple past and past participle imponed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To stake; to wager; to pledge.
- Shakespeare
- Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards.
- Shakespeare
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for impone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Italian
Verb
impone
- third-person singular present indicative of imporre
Latin
Verb
impōne
- second-person singular present active imperative of impōnō
Spanish
Verb
impone
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of imponer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of imponer.