Impart
verbTo pass on information, knowledge, or a quality to someone or something.
How to spell impart
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce impart
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does impart mean?
- verbTo pass on information, knowledge, or a quality to someone or something.
Impart in a sentence
-
The senior nurse was keen to impart her practical knowledge to the trainees.
-
A few drops of vanilla impart a warm flavour to the cake.
Where does impart come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This verb traces back to the Latin impartire, sometimes written impertire, which combined in- meaning 'in' or 'into' with partire 'to share or divide'. That partire was built on the noun pars (stem part-), simply meaning 'a part', so the literal idea was to give someone a share, to portion something out to them. English took the word in during the 1400s, partly through Old French, and at first it really did mean handing over a tangible portion of something. Over time the sense softened toward sharing things you cannot physically divide, such as knowledge, news, or a particular quality. The same pars root sits inside everyday words like 'part', 'partner', and 'portion', which is a handy reminder that impart keeps the ordinary word 'part' fully intact inside its spelling.
How the word is built
- im- (in, into)
- part (from Latin partire: to share, from pars/part- 'a part')
Fix your spelling for good.
Spelling Garden finds the words you personally get wrong, plants them in a garden, and brings each one back just before you would have forgotten it.
Just five minutes a day is all it takes to fix your spelling.