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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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nuncio
English
Etymology
Latin n?ntius (“envoy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?n?i?o?/
Noun
nuncio (plural nuncios)
- (Roman Catholicism) The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
- (by extension) One who bears a message; a messenger.
- (historical) Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.
Derived terms
- nuncioship
- nunciotist
Related terms
- internuncio
- nunciature
- Pro-nuncio (defunct since 1991)
Translations
References
- A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.), volume VI (L–N), part ii (M–N, 1908), § 2 (N, ed. William Alexander Craigie), page 263 s.v. “Nuncio”
Further reading
- nuncio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- uncoin
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?nu?n.ki.o?/, [?nu??kio?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?nun.t??i.o/, [?nun??t??i?]
Noun
n?nci? m
- dative singular of n?ncius
- ablative singular of n?ncius
References
- nuncio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin n?ntius.
Noun
nuncio m (plural nuncios)
- messenger
- (Catholicism) nuncio
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