Where does “imperial” come from?
Imperial comes from Middle English imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperialis, formed from imperare meaning to command, with the suffix -alis.
imperial (English): Related to an empire, emperor, or empress;...
Definitions
- Related to an empire, emperor, or empress;...
Ancestry of “imperial”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | imperial | Imperial; related to or being of an empire or its... |
| 2 | Old French | imperial | — |
| 3 | Latin | imperiālis | of the empire or emperor, imperial |
| 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... |
Words derived from “imperial”
- imperialism
- imperialist
- imperialistic
- imperially
- antiimperialist
- postimperial
- neoimperialism
- imperialistically
- imperialization
- neoimperialist
- imperiality
- nonimperial
- preimperial
- nonimperialistic
- imperialize
- nonimperialist
- archimperialist
- ultraimperialism
- deimperialization
- imperialness
- extraimperial
- imperiaalinen
- antiimperial
- imperial India pale ale