Other forms: imparted, imparting, imparts
To impart is to give knowledge or a quality to somebody. Impart wisdom, impart flavour, impart information.
It is formal, and it takes a thing and a person: impart something to somebody. Of a flavour or a quality it means to give: oak imparts vanilla notes. Of knowledge it is faintly grand, which is why imparting wisdom is usually said with a smile. Note that the Latin means to share out, from partiri, so imparting is giving a share.
1verbimpartTo give knowledge or a quality to somebody.
“My grandfather imparted his love of fishing to all his grandchildren.”
impart is a giving.
Latin impartire is in plus partire, to divide, from pars, a part. Part, portion and particle come from the same dividing.
Proto-Indo-European
*perh₃-
Latin
impartiō
Middle French
impartir
Middle English
imparten
English, today
impart
Built from
From Middle English imparten, borrowed from Middle French impartir, empartir, from Latin impartiō, impertiō, from im- (“in”) + Latin partiō (“divide”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA