empire
Middle English
/ɛmˈpiːr(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- Emperorship; the office, power or title of emperor.
- An empire; the domain of an emperor or empress.
- (rare) Total power or influence, especially when wielded by gods.
- (rare) A region of control; a field or zone.
- (rare) God's kingdom in the heavens.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French empire derived from Latin imperium (empire, imperial government, command, power).
Origin
Latin
imperium
Gloss
empire, imperial government, command, power
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
力
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiempire English
- empire English
- empirehood English
- imperium English
- miniempire English
- subempire English
- imperialis Latin
- imperiosus Latin
- imperium Latin
- Imperium German
- impero Italian
- imperium Dutch, Flemish
- empire French
- импе́рия Russian
- империя Russian
- imperio Spanish, Castilian
- imperium Norwegian Bokmål
- imperium Swedish
- imperium Norwegian Nynorsk
- imperium Danish
- impérium Czech
- emperie Old French
- empire Old French
- imperiu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- impērija Latvian
- impere Old Irish
- အင်ပါယာ Burmese
- emperio Old Portuguese
- emperi Occitan
- imperiu Asturian
- imperi Friulian
- mpiru Sicilian
- inpero Venetian
- ampério Mirandese
- emperi Old Catalan