Where does “Empire” come from?
Empire comes from Old French empire, derived from Latin imperium, the noun form of imperare meaning "to command," ultimately from the Latin preposition in.
Empire (English): A political unit, typically having an extensive...
Definitions
- A political unit, typically having an extensive...
Ancestry of “Empire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Empire | Following or imitating a style popular during the... |
| 2 | Middle English | empire | Emperorship; the office, power or title of... |
| 3 | Old French | empire | empire |
| 4 | Latin | imperium | The empire, state, imperial government, realm,... |
| 5 | Latin | imperāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | parāre | — |
| 7 | Latin | parō | to arrange, order, contrive, design |
| 8 | Latin | pectus | chest, breast; heart, breast, as the seat of... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | pektos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peg- | breast |
| 11 | English | polyethylene glycol | Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of... |