different between impeachment vs impeachable

English

Etymology

From Middle English empechement (“hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction; legal accusation or charge; act of calling into question or discrediting; challenge to a claim or right”), and thence either:

• from Middle English empechen, empeschen, empesche, enpechen, impechen (“to cause to get stuck; of a ship: to run aground; to block, obstruct; to hinder, impede; to prevent; to interfere with, harm; to criticize, disparage; to bring charges against; to formally accuse of treason or another high crime”) (from Anglo-Norman empecher, Old French empechier, empeechier) + -ment (suffix forming action nouns, concrete nouns, and nouns indicating a result or a condition or state); or
• from Old French empechement, empeechement, empeschement (“obstacle”) (modern French empêchement (“impediment, obstacle”)), from empeechier (“to fetter; to hinder”), empescher (“to inhibit, prevent”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs).

The English word is analysable as impeach +? -ment.

Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern French empêcher) are derived from Late Latin impedic?re (“to catch; to entangle”), present active infinitive of Latin impedic? (“to entangle; to fetter”), from im- (variant of in-) + pedica (“fetter, shackle; snare, trap”) (from p?s (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”)) + -?.

In senses 1.2 (“accusation that a person has committed a crime”) and 1.3 (“act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct”), the word has been used in place of Latin impetere, the present active infinitive of impet? (“to assail, attack, rush upon”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?pi?t?m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /im?pit?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: im?peach?ment

Noun

impeachment (countable and uncountable, plural impeachments)

1. (countable) The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.

   Synonyms: deprecation, depreciation, discrediting, disparagement

   1. (countable, law) A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
   2. (countable, law, Britain) An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
   3. (countable, law, chiefly US) The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
2. (uncountable) The state of being impeached.
3. (uncountable, archaic) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

Alternative forms

• empeachment (obsolete)

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Polish: impeachment
• ? Russian: ?????????? (impí?ment)
  • ? Kazakh: ????????? (ïmpïçment)
• ? Spanish: impeachment

Translations

References

Further reading

• impeachment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From English impeachment, originally to refer to the United States; doublet of French empêchement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im.pit?.m?nt/

Noun

impeachment m (plural impeachments)

1. (law) impeachment (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, in the United States and other countries)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English impeachment.

Noun

impeachment m (invariable)

1. (law) impeachment (act of impeaching a public official)

   Synonym: messa in stato di accusa

Polish

Etymology

From English impeachment, from Middle English empechement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?p?it??.m?nt/

Noun

impeachment m inan

1. (law) impeachment (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct)
2. (law) impeachment (state of being impeached)

Declension

Further reading

• impeachment in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• impeachment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

English impeachment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?pit??ment/, [?m?pit??.m?n?t?]

Noun

impeachment m (plural impeachments)

1. impeachment (political trial) (especially in reference to the political systems of English-speaking countries)

   Synonyms: destitución, impugnación

English

Etymology

impeach +? -able

Adjective

impeachable (comparative more impeachable, superlative most impeachable)

1. Able to be impeached (of a person).
2. That warrants impeachment (of an offence).