impact的词源

英文词源

impact (v.): c. 1600, "press closely into something," from Latin impactus, past participle of impingere "to push into, dash against, thrust at" (see impinge). Originally sense preserved in impacted teeth (1876). Sense of "strike forcefully against something" first recorded 1916. Figurative sense of "have a forceful effect on" is from 1935. Related: Impacting.
impact (n.): 1781, "collision," from impact (v.). Figurative sense of "forceful impression" is from 1817 (Coleridge).

im-,进入，使，-pact,压紧，推进，词源同impinge,compact.其原义为牙齿阻生，后引申词义冲击，影响。

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来源于拉丁语中由前缀im-(入,向内)和动词pangere(驱动)组成的复合动词impingere(冲入)的过去分词impactus。