impulsus

Perfect passive participle of impellō (“push, drive”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪmˈpʊɫ.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [imˈpul.sus]

impulsus (feminine impulsa, neuter impulsum); first/second-declension participle

1. pushed, driven, assailed, having been pushed or driven.
2. urged on, incited, impelled, having been urged on.
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.1:

     Hac impulsi occasione

     Incited by this opportunity

3. overthrown, subdued, having been overthrown.

First/second-declension adjective.

• impulsiō

impulsus m (genitive impulsūs); fourth declension

1. shock, impact, impulse
2. incitement

Fourth-declension noun.

• “impulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “impulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "impulsus", 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)
• impulsus in Gaffiot, 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