Crossword clues for imperator
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imperator \Im`pe*ra"tor\, n. [L. See Emperor.] (Rom. Antiq.) A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"commander-in-chief," Latin agent noun from stem of imperare "to command" (see imperative). In the Roman republic, a commander; in the Roman Empire, the emperor.
Wiktionary
n. emperor
Wikipedia
The Latin word imperator was originally a title roughly equivalent to commander under the Roman Republic. Later it became a part of the titulature of the Roman Emperors as part of their cognomen. The English word emperor derives from imperator via Old French Empereür. The Roman emperors themselves generally based their authority on multiple titles and positions, rather than preferring any single title. Nevertheless, imperator was used relatively consistently as an element of a Roman ruler's title throughout the principate (derived from princeps, from which prince in English is derived) and the dominate.
In Latin, the feminine form of imperator is imperatrix, denoting a ruling female.
Imperator can refer to:
- Imperator, a title used in the Roman Republic
- a title used in occult societies, such as AMORC, Confraternity of the Rose Cross, or FUDOSI.
- a title used in Saga of the Skolian Empire by science fiction author Catherine Asaro.
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Imperator Titan, is a warpiece in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000.
- Ave Imperator, a proclamation of loyalty to the Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind in Warhammer 40,000.
- Pavo muticus imperator (Imperator, Indo-Chinese green peafowl, or dragonbird), a subspecies of the endangered green peafowl.
- Imperator, a German ocean liner.
- Imperator, a subspecies of boa constrictor, Boa constrictor imperator.
- Imperator, a genus of bolete mushroom.
Imperator is a genus of fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was circumscribed in 2015 by Boris Assyov and colleagues. The erection of Imperator follows recent molecular studies that outlined a new phylogenetic framework for the Boletaceae. The type species is Imperator torosus, an "impressive and prestigious" species to which the generic name Imperator refers.
Imperator (19741997) was an American Saddlebred show horse. He won four five-gaited World Grand Championships and eight Gelding Championships at the World's Championship Horse Show, besides four five-gaited Grand Championships at the National Horse Show. He retired to the Kentucky Horse Park after the end of his show career and when he died was buried there.
Usage examples of "imperator".
That bit of news was surprising enough, but it quickly turned shocking when they found out that Balam, who they had thought was gone forever, was the power behind the imperator.
Very shrewdly he had declined to ask the Senate for a triumph, though his men had hailed him imperator on the field when he had trounced the Galilaean army near Lake Gennesarus.
Senate for a triumph, though his men had hailed him imperator on the field when he had trounced the Galilaean army near Lake Gennesarus.
Word went out by means mundane and magickal telling the warriors, archers, lancers, Imperators, and sorcerers to assemble for the Reithrese campaign.
Retain the dictatorship for a time, strengthen the plebeian element by ruthless proscriptions of patricians and by recruits from the provinces, unite the tribunitial, pontifical, and military powers in the imperator designated by the army, all elements existing in the constitution from an early day, and already developed in the Roman state, and you have the imperial constitution, which retained to the last the senate and consuls, though with less and less practical power.
Just beyond Imperator, she saw HMS Intransigent, Alistair McKeon's squadron flagship, and she smiled fondly at the sight.
Tiyagaris' line had finally died out, and every new Imperator who seized power was another cast of the dice cup.
Calliditatem hominis non ignorans Imperator prior arma movere constituit, and stigmatizes the folly of the cum sacri tum profani proceres, which he had heard, amentes spe vana pasci.
They would not have the authority to overrule Moozh-the Gorayni would never have conquered so many kingdoms if the imperators had allowed their underlings to countermand the orders of generals in the field.
The newly discovered Gaius distinctly states that it was in virtue of a law - Nec unquam dubitatum est, quin id legis vicem obtineat, cum ipse imperator per legem imperium accipiat.
The majority of the incalcitrant colonial races had been brought back into the structure of the Imperium which, although still ruled by Atlan, as the Imperator Gonozal VIII, was more than ever dependent upon Rhodan's support.
When his sister Soz had become Imperator, she had chosen another home.
No one had sat in this chair since the death of the last Imperator, his sister, Soz, and before her, his half-brother, Kurj.
This would not lead to his ouster as general, but it would take the luster off his name, and it would put him back under the thumb of the Imperator.
At the same time it will give us a chance to put the Terrans in a still worse light with Imperator Gonozal VIII!