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From Old French empereor (Modern French empereur), from Latin imperator (“emperor; commander”), from imperare (“ to command”).
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emperor (plural emperors)
- The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
- (medieval political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
- The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
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ruler of an empire
- Ancient Greek: καῖσαρ m., αὐτάναξ m.
- Arabic: قيصر (ar) (qaySar) m., إمبراطور (ar) ('imbraaTuur) m.
- Armenian: կայսր (hy) (kaysr)
- Old Armenian: կայսր (kaysr), կեսար (kesar)
- Bengali: সম্রাট (bn)
- Bosnian: car m., imperator m. (of Russia, Bulgaria)
- Breton: impalaer (br)
- Bulgarian: цар (bg) m., император (bg) m.
- Catalan: emperador (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 皇帝 (wong4 dai3)
- Dungan: хуанди (huandi)
- Mandarin: 皇帝 (cmn) (huángdì), 帝王 (cmn) (dìwáng), 天皇 (cmn) (tiānhuáng) (of Japan)
- Czech: císař (cs) m.
- Danish: kejser (da), Keiseren (da)
- Dutch: keizer (nl) m.
- Esperanto: imperiestro (eo)
- Estonian: keiser (et)
- Finnish: keisari (fi)
- French: empereur (fr) m.
- Galician: emperador (gl)
- Georgian: იმპერატორი (ka) (imp'erat'ori)
- German: Kaiser (de) m., Imperator (de) m.
- Greek:
- Ancient: αὐτοκράτωρ m.
- Modern: αυτοκράτορας (el) m.
- Hebrew: קיסר (he)
- Hungarian: császár (hu), cár (hu)
- Icelandic: keisari (is) m.
- Ido: cezaro (io)
- Indonesian: kaisar (id)
- Interlingua: imperator (ia)
- Irish: impire (ga) m.
- Italian: imperatore (it) m.
- Japanese: 帝王 (ja) (teiō) (general term for Emperor), 皇帝 (ja) (kōtei) (Emperor in general); 天皇 (ja) (tennō) (Emperor of Japan)
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- Khmer: អធិរាជ (km) (atʰiriech), ព្រះចៅអធិរាជ (km) (preah chav atʰiriech), រាជាធិរាជ (km) (riechie tʰiriech)
- Korean: 황제 (hwangje), 천황 (ko) (cheonhwang) (of Japan)
- Kurdish: emperator (ku), qeyser (ku)
- Latin: imperator (la) m.
- Latvian: imperators (lv) m.
- Lithuanian: imperatorius (lt) m.
- Luxembourgish: Keeser (lb)
- Macedonian: цар (mk) (car) m., император (mk) (imperátor) m.
- Malay: kaisar (ms), maharaja (ms)
- Malayalam: സാമ്രാട്ട് (saamraattu)
- Mandinka: mansa
- Manx: ard-ree (gv) m.
- Mongolian: эзэн хаан (mn)
- Norwegian: keiser (no) m.
- Old Provençal: emperador
- Polish: imperator (pl) m., cesarz (pl) m.
- Portuguese: imperador (pt) m.
- Romanian: împărat (ro) m.
- Russian: император (ru) (imperátor) m., (czar) царь (ru) (car’) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: àrd-rìgh (gd) m., Ceusair (gd)
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: цар m., император
- Latin: car m., imperator
- Slovak: cisár (sk) m., cár (sk) m. (of Russia, Bulgaria)
- Slovene: cesar (sl) m.
- Spanish: emperador (es) m.
- Swahili: kaisari (sw)
- Swedish: kejsare (sv)
- Thai: จักรพรรดิ (th) (càkkraphát)
- Turkish: imparator (tr)
- Vietnamese: hoàng đế (vi), thiên hoàng (vi) (of Japan)
- Welsh: ymerawdwr (cy)
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