🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

imputer

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ɛ̃.py.te/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Impute/ɪmˈpjuːt/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"On ne peut pas lui imputer cet échec."

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To attribute or ascribe something, especially a fault, crime, or responsibility, to a person or source.

    "The committee chose to impute the financial losses to poor management decisions."
  2. 2

    In statistics and economics, to assign a value to something by inference from the values of other variables.

    "Researchers often impute missing income data based on education and employment levels."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'impute' originates from the Latin 'imputare', which means 'to reckon, charge, or attribute'. It evolved through Old French before entering Middle English, where it retained the meaning of attributing responsibility or fault to someone.

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