Where does “impasse” come from?
impasse (Italian) comes from French impasse, from French passé, from French passer, from Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin passare, from Latin passus, from Latin patior — to hate, hurt.
impasse (Italian): impasse, dead-end, deadlock, stalemate
Definitions
- impasse, dead-end, deadlock, stalemate
Ancestry of “impasse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | impasse | stalemate, impasse; dead-end; cul-de-sac |
| 2 | French | passé | past tense; past; last |
| 3 | French | passer | to go past; to cross; to pass |
| 4 | Middle French | passer | to pass; to go by |
| 5 | Old French | passer | to pass; to pass by |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | passare | to walk, pass; step, walk, pass; present active... |
| 7 | Latin | passus | spread out; dried; step |
| 8 | Latin | patior | I suffer, endure; I allow, acquiesce, permit,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₁- | to hate, hurt |