English

Noun

impedimenta

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

     On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.

   • 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p.20

     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

Synonyms

• impediments

References

1. ↑ “impedimenta” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Latin

Noun

impedīmenta

1. nominative plural of impedīmentum
2. accusative plural of impedīmentum
3. vocative plural of impedīmentum

References

• impedimenta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers