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impedimenta

noun
/ɪmˌpɛdɪˈmɛntə/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin impedimenta, circa 1600. Compare impediment.

  1. learned borrowing from impedimenta

Definitions

  1. Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help,…

    Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.

    • On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
    • Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

  2. plural of impedimentum

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for impedimenta. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA