impositus

impositus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of impōnō.

Participle

impositus (feminine imposita, neuter impositum); first/second-declension participle

1. imposed, put upon
2. established

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	impositus	imposita	impositum		impositī	impositae	imposita
Genitive	impositī	impositae	impositī		impositōrum	impositārum	impositōrum
Dative	impositō		impositō		impositīs
Accusative	impositum	impositam	impositum		impositōs	impositās	imposita
Ablative	impositō	impositā	impositō		impositīs
Vocative	imposite	imposita	impositum		impositī	impositae	imposita

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Franco-Provençal: empout
  • Italian: imposta (in the sense of 'shutter')
• Borrowed: (possibly all calqued or adapted from Old French)
  • → Catalan: impost
  • → Italian: imposta (in the sense of 'tax')
  • → Old French: impost
    • French: impôt
  • → Old Portuguese: imposto
    • Galician: imposto
    • Portuguese: imposto
  • → Romanian: impozit
  • → Spanish: impuesto
    • → Asturian: impuestu

References

• “impositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “impositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• impositus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the town stands on rising ground: oppidum colli impositum est