The title of imperator originally meant the rough equivalent of commander under the Roman Republic. Later, it became a part of the titulature of the Roman Emperors as their See more

When Rome was ruled by kings, to be able to rule, the king had to be invested with the full regal authority and power. So, after the See more

After the Roman empire collapsed in the West in the 5th century, Latin continued to be used as the official language of the Eastern Roman Empire See more

Imperator is the root of most Romance languages's word for emperor. It is the root of the English word "emperor", which entered the language via the French empereur, while related adjectives like "imperial" were imported into English directly from Latin. See more

In Roman Republican literature and epigraphy, an imperator was a magistrate with imperium. But also, mainly in the later Roman Republic and … See more

The term imperatrix seems not to have been used in Ancient Rome to indicate the consort of an imperator or later of an emperor See more

• Combès, Robert (1966). Imperator : Recherches sur l'emploi et la signification du titre d'Imperator dans la Rome républicaine See more