Etymology

impend

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Today it means: To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang. Full definition →

Latin impendere
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromimpendere“to hang over, to weigh out”
  2. English todayimpend

Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.

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