English
imperant
Imperant comes from Latin imperans ‘commanding, giving orders to’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pr̥h₃o-1reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*paro-1reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEparō1‘to arrange, order, contrive, design’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimperō2as imperare, present participle‘to command’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimperans2‘commanding, giving orders to’
- Englishearliest quotation 1691imperant2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin impero
- 2 Wiktionary, English imperant
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1691, Richard Baxter: “you might so far distinguish of them as Imperant…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pr̥h₃o-Wiktionary, Latin imperoreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*paro-Wiktionary, Latin imperoreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEparōWiktionary, Latin impero‘to arrange, order, contrive, design’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimperōWiktionary, English imperantas imperare, present participle‘to command’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimperansWiktionary, English imperant‘commanding, giving orders to’
- Englishearliest quotation 1691imperantWiktionary, English imperant. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1691, Richard Baxter: “you might so far distinguish of them as Imperant…”
Linked words
through Latin parō ‘to arrange, order, contrive, design’
several, separate, repair, preparation, separation, apparel, apparatus, parachute, preparatory, disparate, inseparable, pare, separator, severance, reparation, rampart, separable, 18 more
through Latin imperō ‘to command’
Today it means
adj commanding
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “imperant”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin impero. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o- / imperant