empereur

The Latin word for "emperor" was "imperator" and the word for "empire" was "imperius," the adjective of which was "imperialis," the source of today's word. Clearly, all shared the same root, that of the verb imperare "to command." (The Latin root of "imperare" is based on in "in" + parare "prepare." A commander was originally someone who trained an army.) The Latin title was first bestowed on Julius Caesar and was passed on to other Roman rulers as commanders-in-chief. In the Middle Ages, Charlemagne, heir to the Roman Empire in his mind, adopted it and it passed on to other rules of the Christianized 'Holy Roman Empire.' Over the years "imperator" melted into French "empereur" whence it was borrowed by English.emperâtur
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