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; see emperor
Example Sentences
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According to a recent study published in the scientific journal Nature, a Brazilian fossil of a pterosaur called Tupandactylus imperator included extensive amounts of soft tissue.
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
According to the new proposal, Sue, the Field Museum’s nearly complete T. rex, is now the holotype — the specimen that anchors a species name — of Tyrannosaurus imperator.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2022
Othone per literas flagitante ut maturarent, militibus ut imperator pugnæ adesset poscentibus; plerique copias trans Padum agentes acciri postulabant.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig
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