imperator
Americannoun
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an absolute or supreme ruler.
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(in Imperial Rome) emperor.
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(in Republican Rome) a temporary title accorded a victorious general.
noun
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(in imperial Rome) a title of the emperor
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(in republican Rome) a temporary title of honour bestowed upon a victorious general
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a less common word for emperor
Other Word Forms
- imperatorial adjective
- imperatorially adverb
- imperatorship noun
Etymology
Origin of imperator
1570–80; < Latin imperātor; emperor
Example Sentences
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Joining the king in the genus Tyrannosaurus would be the bulkier and older emperor, T. imperator, and the slimmer queen, T. regina.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2022
Tupandactylus imperator was a bird-like creature, with a wingspan of around 10 feet, and a large flat protrusion on their head, called a sagittal crest, that stuck up vertically like a shark fin.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2022
The fossil, described on Wednesday in a new study in Nature, is a pterosaur called Tupandactylus imperator that was found in the Early Cretaceous limestone of Brazil’s Crato Formation.
From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2022
Earlier this year, a trio of paleontologists proposed that some of the fossils labeled T. rex are different species and should get new names—T. regina and T. imperator.
From Slate • Apr. 2, 2022
In omnibus rebus singulari fuit industria: nam 10 et agricola sollers et peritus iuris consultus et magnus imperator et probabilis orator et cupidissimus litterarum fuit.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
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