Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 842.imperātor on page 842
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imperātor general
imperātor is a Latin Noun that primarily means general.
Definitions for imperātor
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
general, commander-in-chief, emperor
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
One who gives orders, a person in charge. (b) the ruler of a country or people.
- 2
A commanding officer, general. (b) (as a cult-title of Jupiter).
- 3
A title of honour conferred on a victorious general by acclamation of his troops or by a vote of the senate.
Sentences with imperātor
Latin to English
Magnopere vereor ut imperātor nōbīs satis auxiliī mittat.Compare I greatly fear that the general may not send us enough help.
Duae sunt artēs igitur quae possunt locāre hominēs in amplissimō gradū dignitātis: ūna imperātoris, altera ōrātōris bonī. (Cicero, Pro Murena 30)Compare There are two professions that lead a man to the highest rank of office, that of general, and that of good orator.
Imperator...intra ecclesiam, non supra ecclesiam est. (Sermo contra Auxentium, 35)Compare The emperor...is in the Church, not above the Church.
Imperator res adversus auctoritas minuo.Compare The bad success of commanders lessens their authority.
Ita tres imperator felicitas unus dies locus multus res publica conservo.Compare So by the good fortune of three generals, the republic was in one day saved in several places.
Declension table for imperātor
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | imperātor | imperātōrēs |
| Gen. | imperātōris | imperātōrum |
| Dat. | imperātōrī | imperātōribus |
| Acc. | imperātōrem | imperātōrēs |
| Abl. | imperātōre | imperātōribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 158.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 842.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
Bibliography
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "imperātor, imperātōris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 30, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/imperator-imperatoris.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 158.imperātor, imperātōris on page 158
