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imperial
English
Etymology
From Middle English imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperi?lis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -?lis, from imper? (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?p?.?i.?l/
Adjective
imperial (comparative more imperial, superlative most imperial)
- Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
- Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
- Very grand or fine.
- Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.
Synonyms
- (humorous): in old money
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)
- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
- (paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
- (card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
- A crown imperial.
- Is all too fettered for the poet's powers,
- Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers
- Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.
- A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
- Synonym: royal
- A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
- (historical) An outside seat on a diligence.
- (countable, uncountable) A variety of green tea.
Usage notes
- A champagne or Burgundy wine bottle with the same volume would be called a Methuselah.
Anagrams
- Palmieri
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imperi?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /im.p?.?i?al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /im.pe.?i?al/
Adjective
imperial (masculine and feminine plural imperials)
- imperial
Derived terms
- imperialisme
- imperialista
Related terms
- emperador
- imperi
Further reading
- “imperial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “imperial” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “imperial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “imperial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Adjective
imperial m or f (plural imperiais)
- imperial
Derived terms
- imperialismo
- imperialista
Related terms
- imperio
Further reading
- “imperial” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- inperial, imperyal, inperyal, imperyall, imperiall, emperiall, empirial
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French imperial, emperial, from Latin imperi?lis; equivalent to emperie +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imp?ri?a?l/, /im?p??rial/, /?m-/
Adjective
imperial (plural and weak singular imperiale)
- Imperial; related to or being of an empire or its ruler.
- Befitting or appropriate for someone of imperial rank; superb.
- Unsurpassed, unmatched; lacking an equal or equivalent.
Descendants
- English: imperial
- Scots: imperial
References
- “imperi??l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-24.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imperi?lis.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: im?pe?ri?al
Adjective
imperial m or f (plural imperiais, comparable)
- imperial
Derived terms
- imperialismo
- imperialista
Related terms
- império
- imperador
Noun
imperial f (plural imperiais)
- (Portugal, regional) draft beer
- 2013, Afonso Cruz, Alice Vieira, André Gago, Catarina Fonseca, David Machado, Isabel Stidwell, José Fanha, A misteriosa mulher da ópera, Leya ?ISBN, page 155
- «Traga-me mais uma imperial», disse eu ao empregado. Tinha uma praticamente cheia, mas não gosto de ser apanhado desprevenido. O Juvenal julgou que era para ele e agradeceu, eu disse-lhe «nada», e peguei na imperial, passei as ...
- Synonyms: (Portugal, regional) fino, (Brazil) chope
- 2013, Afonso Cruz, Alice Vieira, André Gago, Catarina Fonseca, David Machado, Isabel Stidwell, José Fanha, A misteriosa mulher da ópera, Leya ?ISBN, page 155
Further reading
- “imperial” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French impérial and Latin imperi?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?im.pe.ri?al/
Adjective
imperial m or n (feminine singular imperial?, masculine plural imperiali, feminine and neuter plural imperiale)
- imperial
Declension
Related terms
- imperialism
- imperiu
- împ?rat
Scots
Adjective
imperial (comparative mair imperial, superlative maist imperial)
- imperial
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imperi?lis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -?lis, from imper? (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /impe??jal/, [?m.pe??jal]
Adjective
imperial (plural imperiales)
- imperial
Derived terms
- cormorán imperial
- garza imperial
- imperialismo
- imperialista
- manjar imperial
Related terms
- emperador
- imperio
Further reading
- “imperial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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sovereign
English
Alternative forms
- soveraign, soveraigne (archaic)
- sovran (archaic)
- sovring (pronunciation spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English sovereyn, from Old French soverain (whence also modern French souverain), from Vulgar Latin *super?nus (compare Italian sovrano, Spanish soberano) from Latin super (“above”). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Doublet of soprano, from the same Latin root via Italian. See also suzerain, foreign.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?v.??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?v(?)??n/
- Hyphenation: sov?e?reign
Adjective
sovereign (comparative more sovereign, superlative most sovereign)
- Exercising power of rule.
- Exceptional in quality.
- (now rare, pharmacology) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze […]
- a sovereign remedy
- Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- Having supreme, ultimate power.
- Gentlemen, may I introduce the Sovereign, Her Royal Highness, and Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Elizabeth of Vicron.
- Princely; royal.
- c1610, William Shakespeare, A Winters Tale, V.i:
- You pity not the state, nor the remembrance of his most sovereign name.
- c1610, William Shakespeare, A Winters Tale, V.i:
- Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Synonyms
- autonomous
- supreme
Derived terms
- sovereignly
- sovereign citizen
- sovereign state
Translations
Noun
sovereign (plural sovereigns)
- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
- No question is to be made but that the bed of the Missisippi[sic] belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
- (Britain, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- 2004, December 11, "Birkenhead, Merseyside" BBC Voices recording (0:06:52)
- No, someone who wears loads of sovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’.
- 2004, December 11, "Birkenhead, Merseyside" BBC Voices recording (0:06:52)
Hyponyms
- (monarch): king, queen
Derived terms
- sovereignty
Descendants
- ? Irish: sabhran
- ? Russian: ??????? (soveren)
- ? Scottish Gaelic: sòbharan
- ? Welsh: sofren
Translations
See also
- half sovereign
Verb
sovereign (third-person singular simple present sovereigns, present participle sovereigning, simple past and past participle sovereigned)
- (transitive) To rule over as a sovereign.
Anagrams
- Rovignese, virogenes
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