Impediment

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late Middle English: from Latin impedimentum, from impedire (see impede).

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From Middle English impediment, borrowed from Latin impedimentum.

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impediment (n.)

c. 1400, from Old French empedement or directly from Latin impedimentum "hindrance," from impedire "impede," literally "to shackle the feet," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- "foot." Related: Impedimental.