imperium

Other forms of imperium

plural

imperia

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imperium

What does imperium mean?

imperium means "the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imperium?

imperium has 4 syllables: im-pe-ri-um. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for imperium?

Close synonyms include empire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imperium a common word?

imperium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.