different between empire vs elector

English

Etymology

From Middle English empire, from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of empery and imperium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?m?p??, ?m?p?-?, IPA^(key): /??mpa??/, /??mpa?.?/
• (General American) enPR: ?m?p?r', ?m?p?'?r, IPA^(key): /??m?pa??/, /??m?pa??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Hyphenation: em?pire

Noun

empire (plural empires)

1. A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.

2. A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.

3. A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
4. An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
   • 2002, Evelyn L. Damore, The Rattle and Hiss of the Tin Gods, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 111:

     “Revenues for Jackson's non-profit empire sky-rocketed from $4 million in 1997, to more than $14 million just two years later.”

   • 2009, Martin Short, The Rise of the Mafia, Kings Road Publishing (?ISBN)

     The Mafia never forgave Castro but Lansky had already laid the foundations of a mob gambling empire all over the Caribbean […]

5. (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
   • 1881, François Guizot, The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution..., page 122:

     The brutality, the unthinking, the unreflecting character of the barbarians were so great, that the new faith, the new feelings with which they had been inspired, exercised but a very slight empire over them.

   • 2010, Stefania Tutino, Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 270:

     […] could gain some political strength for the pope, but in so doing the pope would lose the uniqueness and supremacy of his empire over souls: […]

Derived terms

Related terms

• emperor
• empress
• imperator
• imperatrix
• imperial
• imperially
• imperium
• imperate
• imperation

Translations

Further reading

• empire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• empire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• empire at OneLook Dictionary Search

Adjective

empire (not comparable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Empire.

Anagrams

• E-Prime, epimer, permie, premie

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?empire/, [?e?mpire?]
• Rhymes: -empire
• Syllabification: em?pi?re

Noun

empire

1. (architecture) Empire style

Declension

French

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Latin imperium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pi?/

Noun

empire m (plural empires)

1. empire
2. influence, authority, dominion

Derived terms

• Empire byzantin
• Empire du Milieu
• Empire ottoman
• Empire romain
• Saint-Empire romain germanique

Related terms

• empereur
• impératrice
• imperial

Descendants

• Russian: ?????? (ampír)

Etymology 2

Verb

empire

1. first-person singular present indicative of empirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of empirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of empirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of empirer
5. second-person singular imperative of empirer

Further reading

• “empire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• périmé, primée

Italian

Alternative forms

• empiere

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *impl?re, present active infinitive of *impli?, from Latin imple?.

Verb

empìre (first-person singular present émpio, first-person singular past historic empìi or (less common) empiéi, past participle empìto or (less common) empiùto, auxiliary avere) (transitive)

1. (uncommon, literally) to fill [+ di (object) = with]
2. (figuratively) to fill, to stuff [+ di (object) = with]

3. (archaic or literary) to satisfy, to satiate

Conjugation

Synonyms

• riempire

Related terms

• pieno

Anagrams

• permei
• premei

Middle English

Alternative forms

• empyre, enpyre, empyere, empere, empeyr, empir, enpir, ampyre

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of emperie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pi?r(?)/, /?m?p??r(?)/, /??mpi?r(?)/, /am-/

Noun

empire

1. Emperorship; the office, power or title of emperor.
2. An empire; the domain of an emperor or empress.
3. (rare) Total power or influence, especially when wielded by gods.
4. (rare) A region of control; a field or zone.
5. (rare, Christianity) God's kingdom in the heavens.

Descendants

• English: empire
• Scots: empire

References

• “emp?re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-24.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /em?pi.r?/, (late) /am?pi.r?/

Noun

empire m (oblique plural empires, nominative singular empires, nominative plural empire)

1. empire

Descendants

• Middle English: empire
  • English: empire
• French: empire

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.