Noun: imperium
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | imperium |
| Plural | imperia |
Genitive
| Singular | imperiī; imperī |
| Plural | imperiōrum |
Dative
| Singular | imperiō |
| Plural | imperiīs |
Accusative
| Singular | imperium |
| Plural | imperia |
Ablative
| Singular | imperiō |
| Plural | imperiīs |
Vocative
| Singular | imperium |
| Plural | imperia |
Sample Sentences
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imperium sine fīne dedī (“I have granted them empire without end.”
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(The poetic voice is that of Jupiter speaking about the Romans.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.279]
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“quō postquam ventum est, ‘cōnsistitē!’ praescia māter (“After he had arrived there, his prophetic mother said, ‘Halt!, for that countryside will be the place of empire.’”
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(The muse Calliope tells what the prophetess Carmenta said to Carmenta’s son, Evander of Pallantium, after his arrival in Italy.)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.95–96]
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hanc fās imperiī frēna tenēre domum (It is divine will that this house should hold the reins of empire.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.532]
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Q. Fuluio Ap. Claudio, prioris anni consulibus, prorogatum imperium est atque exercitus quos habebant decreti, adiectumque ne a Capua quam obsidebant abscederent priusquam expugnassent. (The military authority of Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius, consuls of the previous year, was extended and the armies which they had were decided upon, and it was added as a proviso that they should not withdraw from Capua, which they were besieging, until they conquered it.) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 26.1]
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Imperium se ab Caesare per proditionem nullum desiderare (He desired no sovereignty from Caesar by treachery) [c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.20]
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Ūnō imperiō ōstiātim tōtum oppidum compīlāvit. (He plundered the whole city, house by house, by one command.)
Nouns inflected like imperium
ēmūnctōrium,
antistitium,
senium,
plantārium,
rīsiloquium,
solium,
palmārium,
tīrōcinium,
occipitium,
tettīgonium,
larārium,
pāpārium,
evangelium,
glōssārium,
aerārium,
tripudium,
vāsārium,
comitium,
dictābolārium,
xenium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From imperō (“command, order”) + -ium, from im- (form of in) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”).
Verbs referencing "imperium"
English Nouns
empire, French Nouns
empire, English Nouns
imperium, Danish Nouns
imperium, Dutch Nouns
imperium, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
imperium, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
imperium, Swedish Nouns
imperium, German Nouns
Imperium, Bulgarian Nouns
империя, Russian Nouns
империя, Italian Nouns
impero, Catalan Nouns
imperi, Finnish Nouns
imperiumi, Latvian Nouns
impērija, Portuguese Nouns
império, Asturian Nouns
imperiu, Romanian Nouns
imperiu, English Nouns
empery, Irish Nouns
impire, Ukrainian Nouns
імперія, Middle English Nouns
emperie.
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