Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) imperō, from (deprecated template usage) im- + (deprecated template usage) parō.
Adjective
- Of or proceeding from a command, commanded.
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- French: impératif
References
- “imperativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press