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imperiu
empire /imˈperju/
noun#2553 most common
Also: imperial rule, dominion
Example sentences
Imperiul roman a fost foarte mare.
The Roman Empire was very large.
Ea citește o carte despre imperiu.
She is reading a book about the empire.
Imperiul otoman a dominat multe teritorii timp de secole.
The Ottoman Empire dominated many territories for centuries.
Istoricii dezbat cauzele prăbușirii imperiului bizantin.
Historians debate the causes of the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
Granițele imperiului s-au extins treptat prin cuceriri și alianțe.
The empire's borders expanded gradually through conquests and alliances.
Declinul imperiilor coloniale a redesenat harta politică a secolului XX.
The decline of colonial empires redrew the political map of the 20th century.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | imperiu | imperii |
| Genitive | imperiului | imperiilor |
| Accusative | imperiu | imperii |
| Vocative | imperiule | imperiilor |
Word family
imperialimperial
imperialismimperialism
imperialistimperialist
a imperato rule as sovereign (rare, literary)
împăratemperor (inherited word, separate line of descent)Etymology
Imperiu is a learned borrowing from Latin imperium, meaning command or supreme authority, and by extension the territory ruled under that authority. Romanian took the word directly from Latin (or through French empire and Italian impero) during the 19th-century modernization of its vocabulary, alongside many other Latinate political and scientific terms. The native, orally inherited word for the ruler himself, împărat, entered Romanian much earlier by a different route.
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