different between emperor vs elector

English

Alternative forms

• emperour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English emperour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman emperour and Old French empereor (Modern French empereur), from Latin imper?tor (“emperor; commander”), from imper?re (“to command”). Doublet of imperator.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mp???/, /??mp??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??mp???/, /??mp??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?emp???/, /?emp??/

Noun

emperor (plural emperors)

1. The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
   • 1885, Miguel de Cervantes, John Ormsby (translator), Don Quixote Volume 2 Chapter XXIV

     They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant Roman emperor, what was the best death. He answered, that which is unexpected, which comes suddenly and unforeseen

2. Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean when consort to emperor
   • 1994 Het Spinhuis, Transactions: Essays in Honor of Jeremy F. Boissevain

     In 690 Wu usurped the throne and became Emperor herself, which proved a unique event in the history of China.

   • 2002 The Heritage of World Civilizations: To 1700 page 226

     After his death in 683 she ruled for seven years as regent and then, deposing her son, became emperor herself, the only woman in Chinese history to hold the title.

   • 2008 Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation page 211

     Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.

   • 2013 Voyages in World History page 213

     Originally the wife of the emperor, she engineered the imperial succession so that she could serve first as regent to a boy emperor and then as emperor herself.

   • 2016, Commander Pakydus, "Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies"

     Where is Sindbad? I have a summons for him direct from the galactic emperor herself. He is to be brought here immediately to give an explanation for his recent actions.

3. (political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.

4. The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
5. A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
6. Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
7. (entomology) Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
8. (entomology) Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.

Usage notes

• The only monarch presently styled "emperor" is the Emperor of Japan (??, tenn?). The British monarch ceased to be styled Emperor of India in 1948.
• An emperor is generally addressed as His Imperial Majesty.

Hyponyms

• barracks emperor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• per orem

English

Etymology

From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ?ligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). ?ligere is the present active infinitive of ?lig? (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + leg? (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *le?- (“to collect, gather”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l?kt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: elect?or

Noun

elector (plural electors)

1. (politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
   1. (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
   2. A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
   3. (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).

Alternative forms

• electour (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• elect
• election

Translations

References

Further reading

• prince-elector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• elector (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• corelet, electro, electro-

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin elector.

Noun

elector m (plural electors, feminine electora)

1. voter, elector

Derived terms

• electoral
• electorat

Further reading

• “elector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “elector” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “elector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “elector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”) +? -tor (agentive suffix) from ex- (“out”) +? leg? (“to gather, collect”) from Proto-Italic *leg?, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-. Compare Ancient Greek ?????? (eklég?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??le?k.tor/, [e????e?kt??r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /e?le?k.tor/, [e?le?ktor]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?lek.tor/, [??l?kt??r]

Noun

?l?ctor m (genitive ?l?ct?ris, feminine ?l?ctr?x); third declension

1. chooser, selector
2. voter, elector

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• elector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 580
• elector in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2378

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector”) (genitive singular ?l?ct?ris), from Latin ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”), ex- +? leg? from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), from Proto-Indo-European *le?-.

Noun

elector m (plural electores, feminine electora, feminine plural electoras)

1. voter, elector

   Synonym: votante

Derived terms

• electorado
• electoral

Further reading

• “elector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.