Where does “empire” come from?
empire (Romanian) comes from French empire, from Old French empire, 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...
empire (Romanian): Empire
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Ancestry of “empire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | empire | empire; influence, authority, dominion;... |
| 2 | Old French | empire | empire |
| 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... |