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Yes. The word impetus is a Scrabble US word. The word impetus is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word impetus is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (3 found)

IMPETUS,IMPUTES,UPTIMES,

6-letter words (8 found)

IMPUTE,PUMIES,SEPIUM,SEPTUM,SUMPIT,UMPIES,UPTIES,UPTIME,

5-letter words (34 found)

EMITS,EMPTS,ETUIS,ITEMS,METIS,MITES,MUIST,MUSET,MUSIT,MUTES,MUTIS,PIETS,PISTE,PIUMS,PUMIE,SETUP,SITUP,SMITE,SPITE,SPUME,STIME,STIPE,STUMP,STUPE,SUITE,TEMPI,TEMPS,TIMES,TIMPS,TUISM,TUMPS,UMPIE,UPSET,UPTIE,

4-letter words (61 found)

EMIT,EMPT,EMUS,ETUI,IMPS,ITEM,METS,MEUS,MIPS,MISE,MIST,MITE,MUSE,MUST,MUTE,MUTI,MUTS,PEST,PETS,PIES,PIET,PISE,PITS,PIUM,PTUI,PUTS,SEMI,SEPT,SIMP,SIPE,SITE,SMIT,SMUT,SPET,SPIE,SPIM,SPIT,SPUE,STEM,STEP,STIE,STIM,STUM,SUET,SUIT,SUMI,SUMP,SUPE,TEMP,TEMS,TIES,TIME,TIPS,TUIS,TUMP,TUMS,TUPS,UMES,UMPS,UTES,UTIS,

3-letter words (45 found)

EMS,EMU,EST,IMP,ISM,ITS,MES,MET,MEU,MIS,MUS,MUT,PES,PET,PIE,PIS,PIT,PIU,PSI,PST,PUS,PUT,SEI,SET,SIM,SIP,SIT,SUE,SUI,SUM,SUP,TES,TIE,TIP,TIS,TUI,TUM,TUP,UME,UMP,UMS,UPS,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (18 found)

EM,ES,ET,IS,IT,ME,MI,MU,PE,PI,SI,ST,TE,TI,UM,UP,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 170 words from impetus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of impetus

impetus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impetus (“a rushing upon, an attack, assault, onset”), from impetō (“to rush upon, attack”), from in- (“upon”) + petō (“to seek, fall upon”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪm.pə.təs/
  • Hyphenation: im‧pe‧tus

Noun

impetus (plural impetuses)

  1. Anything that impels; a stimulating factor.
    The outbreak of World War II in 1939 gave a new impetus to receiver development.
  2. A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.
  3. The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.
  4. (history, medieval physics) A principle of motive force, held as exquivalent to weight times velocity by John Buridan, in an auxiliary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced by John Philoponus, describing projectile motion against gravity as linear until it transitions to a vertical drop and the intellectual precursor to the concepts of inertia, momentum and acceleration in classical mechanics.
  5. An activity in response to a stimulus.

Related terms

  • impetuous

Translations

See also

  • wind at one's back

Further reading

  • “impetus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “impetus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “impetus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • imputes, stumpie, time's up, uptimes

Latin

Etymology

From impetō (“to rush upon, attack”), from in- (“upon”) + petō (“to seek, fall upon”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈim.pe.tus/, [ˈɪmpɛt̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈim.pe.tus/, [ˈimpet̪us]

Noun

impetus m (genitive impetūs); fourth declension

  1. an attack, an assault, a charge
    Synonyms: incursiō, aggressiō, impressiō, invāsiō, assultus, oppugnātiō, incursus, concursus, occursiō, petītiō, appetītus, ictus, vīs, procella
  2. a rapid motion
  3. impulse, vehemence, ardor, passion
    Synonyms: cupīdō, vehementia, libīdō, appetītus, appetītiō, ardor, avāritia, alacritās
  4. a making for

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “impetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “impetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • impetus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • impetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “impetus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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