Where does “impost” come from?

impost (Catalan) comes from French impôt, from Middle French impost, from Latin impōsitus, from Latin impōnō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

impost (Catalan): tax

Definitions

Ancestry of “impost”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	impôt	tax
2	Middle French	impost	—
3	Latin	impōsitus	imposed, put upon
4	Latin	impōnō	to place, lay, set, or put on, in, into, over, or upon
5	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
6	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
7	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8	Proto-Italic	en	in
9	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →