Where does “imperial” come from?
imperial (Middle English) comes from Old French imperial, from Latin imperiālis, from Latin imperium, from Latin imperāre, from Latin parāre, from Latin parō, from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic pektos — Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of...
imperial (Middle English): Imperial; related to or being of an empire or its...
Definitions
- Imperial; related to or being of an empire or its...
Ancestry of “imperial”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | imperial | — |
| 2 | Latin | imperiālis | of the empire or emperor, imperial |
| 3 | Latin | imperium | The empire, state, imperial government, realm,... |
| 4 | Latin | imperāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | parāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | parō | to arrange, order, contrive, design |
| 7 | Latin | pectus | chest, breast; heart, breast, as the seat of... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | pektos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | peg- | breast |
| 10 | English | polyethylene glycol | Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of... |
Words derived from “imperial”
- imperial
- imperialism
- imperialist
- imperialistic
- imperially
- antiimperialist
- postimperial
- neoimperialism
- imperialistically
- imperialization
- neoimperialist
- imperiality
- nonimperial
- preimperial
- nonimperialistic
- imperialize
- nonimperialist
- archimperialist
- ultraimperialism
- deimperialization
- imperialness
- extraimperial
- imperiaalinen
- antiimperial