different between republican vs principate

English

Etymology

From republic +? -an, partly after French républicain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p?bl?k?n/
• Rhymes: -p?bl?k?n

Adjective

republican (comparative more republican, superlative most republican)

1. Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism. [from 17th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 222:

     Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).

2. Of or belonging to a republic. [from 17th c.]
3. Relating to the U.S. Republican Party

Translations

Noun

republican (plural republicans)

1. Someone who favors a republic as a form of government. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson:

     Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
2. A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.

Synonyms

• anti-monarchist
• antiroyalist

Translations

Ladin

Adjective

republican m (feminine singular republicana, masculine plural republicans, feminine plural republicanes)

1. republican

Related terms

• republica

Spanish

Verb

republican

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of republicar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of republicar.

English

Etymology

From Latin princeps (“first”), referring to the titles princeps senatus (“first among senators”) and princeps civitatis (“first among citizens”), adopted by Octavian Caesar Augustus in order to preserve the illusion of formal continuance of some aspects of the Roman Republic.

Compare prince.

Noun

principate (countable and uncountable, plural principates)

1. (historical) The early period of the Roman Empire, during which some characteristics of the government of the Roman Republic were retained; the reign of any particular emperor during said period.
   • 1967, Richard Alexander Bauman, The Crimen Maiestatis in the Roman Republic and Augustan Principate, Witwatersrand University Press.
   • 1972, H. F. Jolowicz, Barry Nicholas, A Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law, Cambridge University Press, 3rd Edition, page 395,

     The history of the courts and of judicial procedure during the principate is closely parallel to that of the government as a whole.

   • 1978, A. Arthur Schiller, Roman Law: Mechanisms of Development, Walter de Gruyter (Mouton Publishers), page 463,

     The transition from republic to Principate brought a new and potent factor into the legal picture of the Roman state, the princeps or emperor.

   • 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317,

     The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.

   • 2000, Ellen O'Gorman, Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus, Cambridge University Press, page 23,

     In the introductory chapter I had already started to examine how Tacitus' designation of the Augustan regime as a versus status potentially draws a line of continuity between the principate and the civil wars which that regime claims to have resolved.

2. The office of one who is principal or preeminent (such as a prince); the quality or status of being principal; preeminence.
   • 1998, Annabel S. Brett (translator and editor), William of Ockham, On the Power Of Emperors and Popes, Thoemmes Press, page 87,

     From all this we may draw the conclusion that papal principate was instituted for the utility and advantage of its subjects and not for the honour and glory or the utility and temporal advantage of the holder of the principate, in such a way as that such principate deserves to be be called 'of service' and not of 'lordship'.

3. A state ruled by a prince; a principality.

Usage notes

• (early period of the Roman Empire): Taken to extend from the beginning of Augustus' reign to the end of the Crisis of the Third Century: i.e., from 27 BCE—284 CE. The end corresponds to the beginning of the reign of Diocletian, whose reforms included a move to a more explicitly autocratic style.

Synonyms

• (office of a preeminent person): princedom
• (quality of being principal): primacy, principality
• (state ruled by a prince): princedom, principality

Coordinate terms

• (period of the Roman Empire): dominate

Translations

Adjective

principate (not comparable)

1. Primary; principal.