impend
English
/ɪmˈpɛnd/
verb
Definitions
- (obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (over) (something); to overhang.
- (intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
- (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
- (obsolete) To pay.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impendere (hang over, weigh out) root from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (pull, spin, stretch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)pend-
Gloss
pull, spin, stretch
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- appendage English
- compendious English
- expenditure English
- impendeth English
- impending English
- impendingly English
- pendant English
- pendent English
- postpend English
- prepend English
- propend English
- suspend English
- circumpendeo Latin
- compendium Latin
- dependeo Latin
- dē- Latin
- expendere Latin
- expendo Latin
- expendō Latin
- impendeo Latin
- impendere Latin
- pendēre Latin
- ponderare Latin
- praependeo Latin
- propendeo Latin
- pēnsiōnem Latin
- stipendium Latin
- suspendo Latin
- spendieren German
- pensionare Italian
- penchant French
- impender Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pn̥d-éh₁ye-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pénd-e-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pénd-os Proto-Indo-European
- *pend- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- *fintô Proto-Germanic
- *spannō Proto-Germanic
- appenden Middle English
- *pędь Proto-Slavic
- *pendēō Proto-Italic