# impute
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French imputer, from Latin imputō (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪmˈpjuːt/
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* Rhymes: -uːt

### Verb

impute (third-person singular simple present imputes, present participle imputing, simple past and past participle imputed)
* (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
    Synonyms: attribute, insinuate, charge, imply
    The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
** 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, lines 37–40:Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, / If mem’ry o’er their tomb no trophies raise, / Where thro’ the long-drawn isle and fretted vault, / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
** 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 141:I impute my improvement more to the kind attentions of Lord Allerton, who is my companion still, and will not, I think, leave me, than to the sea air.
** 1856 February, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “"Oliver Goldsmith"”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 8th edition, volume and page numbers unknown:He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy.
** 1956–1960, Richard Stanley Peters, “2: Motives and Motivation”, in The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), page 29:We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves.
* (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
** 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin (2010), page 607:To use the technical language of theologians, God through his grace "imputes" the merits of the crucified and risen Christ to a fallen human being who remains without inherent merit, and who without this "imputation" would not be "made" righteous at all.
* (transitive) To take into account.
    Synonyms: consider, regard, reckon
** 1788, Edward Gibbon, “Chapter 64: A.D. 1355–1391: The Emperor John Palæologus; Discord of the Greeks”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire‎, volume 6, page 328:They ſerved with honour in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Conſtantinople excited his jealouſy: he threatened their lives; the new works were inſtantly demoliſhed; and we ſhall beſtow a praiſe, perhaps above the merit of Palæologus, if we impute this laſt humiliation as the cauſe of his death.
* (transitive) To attribute or credit to.
    Synonyms: attribute, ascribe, assign
    People impute great cleverness to cats.
** 2014, Janet Clare, Shakespeare's Stage Traffic, page 11:In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional.
* (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.
** 2010, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 184:We will use a logistic regression model to impute values of nominal and ordinal variables and a linear regression model to impute values of continuous variables.
** 2012, Stef van Buuren, Flexible Imputation of Missing Data, page 263:remove observed values and impute

#### Related terms

* imputability
* imputable
* imputableness
* imputably
* imputation
* imputed

#### Translations

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### References

* “impute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “impute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* uptime

## French
### Verb

impute
* inflection of imputer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Portuguese
### Verb

impute
* inflection of imputar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [imˈpute]

### Verb

impute
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of imputa

## Spanish
### Verb

impute
* inflection of imputar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative