Perfect passive participle ofimpellō(“push, drive”).
impulsus (feminineimpulsa,neuterimpulsum);first/second-declension participle
- pushed,driven,assailed, having been pushed or driven.
- urged on,incited,impelled, having been urged on.
- overthrown,subdued, having been overthrown.
First/second-declension adjective.
impulsus m (genitiveimpulsūs);fourth declension
- shock,impact,impulse
- incitement
Fourth-declension noun.
- “impulsus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impulsus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "impulsus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- impulsus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- in a transport of rage:furore incensus, abreptus, impulsus