different between empress vs emperess

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English emperice, emperesse, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empereriz, from Latin imperatrix, equivalent to emperor +? -ess. Doublet of imperatrix. Compare modern French impératrice.

Alternative forms

• emperess, empresse (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mp??s/

Noun

empress (plural empresses)

1. The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
2. The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
   • 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.

3. (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
4. (rare) A female chimpanzee.
5. A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English empresse, from Anglo-Norman enpresser (“to press, to imprint”), from Old French empresser. Attested from the 15th or late 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p??s/

Verb

empress (third-person singular simple present empresses, present participle empressing, simple past and past participle empressed)

1. Rare form of impress.

References

English

Noun

emperess (plural emperesses)

1. Obsolete form of empress.

Anagrams

• empresse