impulsus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of impellō (“push, drive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /imˈpul.sus/, [ɪmˈpʊɫ̪s̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈpul.sus/, [imˈpulsus]
Participle
impulsus (feminine impulsa, neuter impulsum); first/second-declension participle
- pushed, driven, assailed, having been pushed or driven.
- urged on, incited, impelled, having been urged on.
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 1:
- Hac impulsi occasione
- Incited by this opportunity
- Hac impulsi occasione
- overthrown, subdued, having been overthrown.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | impulsus | impulsa | impulsum | impulsī | impulsae | impulsa | |
| Genitive | impulsī | impulsae | impulsī | impulsōrum | impulsārum | impulsōrum | |
| Dative | impulsō | impulsō | impulsīs | ||||
| Accusative | impulsum | impulsam | impulsum | impulsōs | impulsās | impulsa | |
| Ablative | impulsō | impulsā | impulsō | impulsīs | |||
| Vocative | impulse | impulsa | impulsum | impulsī | impulsae | impulsa | |
Derived terms
- impulsiō
Noun
impulsus m (genitive impulsūs); fourth declension
- shock, impact, impulse
- incitement
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | impulsus | impulsūs |
| Genitive | impulsūs | impulsuum |
| Dative | impulsuī | impulsibus |
| Accusative | impulsum | impulsūs |
| Ablative | impulsū | impulsibus |
| Vocative | impulsus | impulsūs |
Descendants
- Catalan: impuls
- → English: impulse
- → German: Impuls
- Italian: impulso
- Portuguese: impulso
- Romanian: impuls
- → Russian: и́мпульс (ímpulʹs)
- Spanish: impulso
- → Swedish: impuls
References
- “impulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impulsus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- impulsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in a transport of rage: furore incensus, abreptus, impulsus
- in a transport of rage: furore incensus, abreptus, impulsus