emperador

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin imperātōrem.

Noun

emperador m (plural emperadores)

1. emperor (ruler of an empire)

Related terms

• imperiu

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin imperātōrem. Documented since ca. 1280.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əm.pə.ɾəˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [em.pe.ɾaˈðoɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -o(ɾ)

Noun

emperador m (plural emperadors, feminine emperadriu, feminine plural emperadrius)

1. emperor

Related terms

• emperadriu
• emprar
• imperar
• imperatori
• imperatorial
• imperi

References

• “emperador” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Hiligaynon

Noun

emperadór

1. emperor

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin imperātōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emperaˈdoɾ/

Noun

emperador m (plural emperadores)

1. emperor
   • (Can we date this quote?), Afonso Pais de Braga, Ai mia senhor, sempr’eu a Deus roguei [Oh my lady, always hav'I to God pleaded]‎^[1]:

     E, se eu fosse emperador ou rei, era muito de mi avĩir assi de vós, sen[h]or, com’eu depois cuidei, e vejo ben que lazerarei i; mais non poss’eu meu coraçon forçar que non cuide com’el quiser cuidar.

     And, were I emperor or king, it would be great for that to come upon me, concerning you, lady, as I later thought, and I can see well that I shall suffer for that; but I cannot force my heart not to think whatever it may want to think.

Descendants

• Galician: emperador
• Portuguese: imperador

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin imperātōrem. Documented since 1107.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emperaˈdoɾ/

Noun

emperador m (plural emperadores)

1. emperor

Descendants

• Spanish: emperador

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “imperar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 445

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoh], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoh], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoɾ/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoχ], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoʁ/ [ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.pe.ɾaˈdoɻ/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.pe.ɾaˈdoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɨ.ɾɐˈdoɾ/ [ẽ.pɨ.ɾɐˈðoɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɨ.ɾɐˈdoɾ/ [ẽ.pɨ.ɾɐˈðoɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.pɨ.ɾɐˈdo.ɾi/ [ẽ.pɨ.ɾɐˈðo.ɾi]

• Hyphenation: em‧pe‧ra‧dor

Noun

emperador m (plural emperadores, feminine emperatriz, feminine plural emperatrizes)

1. obsolete form of imperador

Further reading

• “emperador”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish emperador, from Latin imperātōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /empeɾaˈdoɾ/ [ẽm.pe.ɾaˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pe‧ra‧dor

Noun

emperador m (plural emperadores, feminine emperatriz or emperadora, feminine plural emperatrices or emperadoras)

1. emperor
2. swordfish

   Synonyms: pez espada, albacora, alfanje

Derived terms

• Emperador-Dios
• pingüino emperador

Related terms

• imperar
• imperial
• imperio

Descendants

• → Tagalog: emperador

Further reading

• “emperador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish emperador.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔempeɾaˈdoɾ/ [ʔɛm.pɛ.ɾɐˈd̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: em‧pe‧ra‧dor

Noun

emperadór (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ᜔ᜉᜒᜇᜇᜓᜇ᜔)

1. emperor

   Synonym: baginda

Related terms

• Emperador
• emperadora
• emperatris
• imperyalismo
• imperyo

Further reading

• “emperador”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.