different between commonwealth vs imperium

English

Etymology

From common (“public”) +? wealth (“well-being”).From c. 1450 as common wele (commonweal). In the form common-wealth (common welthe) from c. 1520, used by Tyndale in the sense "secular society" in particular, for which other authors preferred publike weal.Also from the 1520s treated as a synonym or loan-translation of res publica (republic) (Rollison 2017:67f).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /?k?m?n?w?l?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?k?m?n?w?l?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?k?m?n?wel?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m?n?w?l?/

Noun

commonwealth (plural commonwealths)

1. (obsolete) The well-being of a community.
2. The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
   • c. 1526, Tyndale's Bible, Ephesians 2:12

     Remeber I saye yt ye were at that tyme wt oute Christ and were reputed aliantes from the comen welth [???????? (politeía)] of Israel and were straugers fro the testamentes of promes and had no hope and were with out god in this worlde.

   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 1

     I'th' commonwealth I would by contraries

     Execute all things, for no kind of traffic

     Would I admit; no name of magistrate;

     Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,

     And use of service, none; contract, succession,

     Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;

     No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;

     No occupation, all men idle, all,

     And women too, but innocent and pure;

     No sovereignty——

3. Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.
   • 1649, Act of the Long Parliament

     Be it declared and enacted by this present Parliament and by the Authoritie of the same That the People of England and of all the Dominions and Territoryes thereunto belonging are and shall be and are hereby constituted, made, established, and confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free State by the supreame Authoritie of this Nation, the Representatives of the People in Parliam[ent] and by such as they shall appoint and constitute as Officers and Ministers under them for the good of the People and that without any King or House of Lords.

Derived terms

For example, the official name of Australia is Commonwealth of Australia. It is applied to four states of the United States, to wit, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Also used by self-governing, semi-autonomous units such as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Related terms

• commonweal

Translations

References

• David Rollison, A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and England's Long Social Revolution, 1066-1649, Cambridge University Press, (2010), p. 13.
• David Rollison in: Fitter (ed.), Shakespeare and the Politics of Commoners: Digesting the New Social History, Oxford University Press, (2017), 64–83.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperium (“power, command”), from imper? (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”). Doublet of empery and empire.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p???i.?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??i.?m/

Noun

imperium (countable and uncountable, plural imperia or imperiums)

1. Supreme power; dominion.
2. The right to command the force of the state; sovereignty.

Translations

Danish

Alternative forms

• imperie

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /em?pe???i?m/

Noun

imperium n (singular definite imperiet, plural indefinite imperier)

1. empire

References

• “imperium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?pe?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: im?pe?ri?um

Noun

imperium n (plural imperia, diminutive imperiumpje n)

1. empire

   Synonyms: keizerrijk, rijk

2. business empire

Related terms

• imperiaal

Latin

Alternative forms

• inperium

Etymology

From imper? (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /im?pe.ri.um/, [?m?p??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im?pe.ri.um/, [im?p???ium]

Noun

imperium n (genitive imperi? or imper?); second declension

1. The empire, state, imperial government, realm, dominion.
2. The right or power to command or be in control; dominion.
3. Absolute command over the empire (or other polity); sovereignty; sway.

   Synonym: dici?

4. (military) Military authority, the command (of an army).
5. The exercise of authority, rule, law, control, sovereignty.

   Synonyms: dici?, praescr?ptum, r?gula

6. A command, order, direction, bidding.

   Synonyms: ?dicti?, ?dictum, praeceptum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• imperium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imperium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imperium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• imperium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• imperium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imperium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperium.

Noun

imperium n (definite singular imperiet, indefinite plural imperier, definite plural imperia or imperiene)

1. an empire

References

• “imperium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?pe?ri?m/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

imperium n (definite singular imperiet, indefinite plural imperium, definite plural imperia)

1. empire

References

• “imperium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperium, used in Swedish since 1845.

Noun

imperium n

1. an empire (a state ruled by an emperor or czar)

   Synonyms: kejsardöme, kejsarrike, rike, stormaktsvälde

2. an empire (a huge state or similar sphere of power)

Declension

Related terms

References

• imperium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• imperium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)