empress

See also: Empress

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English emperice, emperesse, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  and Old French empereriz, from Latin imperatrix, equivalent to emperor +‎ -ess. Compare modern French impératrice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmpɹəs/

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Noun

empress (plural empresses)

1. The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
2. The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
   • 2008 Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation page 211

     Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.

3. (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
4. (rare) A female chimpanzee.
5. A deciduous tree,

Translations

female monarch of an empire

• Arabic: إِمْبِرَاطُورَة f (ʔimbirāṭūra)
• Armenian: կայսրուհի (hy) (kaysruhi)
• Aromanian: amirãroanji f
• Catalan: emperadriu (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女皇 (zh) (nǚhuáng)

• Czech: císařovna (cs) f
• Danish: kejserinde (da) c
• Dutch: keizerin (nl) f
• Esperanto: imperiestrino
• Finnish: keisarinna (fi); šaahitar (female shah)
• French: impératrice (fr) f
• Galician: emperatriz f
• Georgian: დედოფალი (dedopali)
• German: Kaiserin (de) f
• Greek: αυτοκράτειρα (el) f (aftokráteira)
• Gujarati: સમ્રાજ્ઞી (samrājñī)
• Hungarian: császárnő (hu)
• Indonesian: maharani (id), maharatu
• Irish: banimpire m
• Italian: imperatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 女帝 (ja) (じょてい, jotei)
• Khmer: អធិរាជិនី (km) (atʰiriechinii)
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• Korean: 여제 (yeoje)
• Latvian: imperatore f, ķeizariene f
• Lithuanian: imperatorė f
• Macedonian: царица f (carica), императорка f (imperatorka)
• Malay: maharani
• Manx: ard-venrein f
• Middle English: emperice
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: keiserinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: keisarinne f

• Persian: امپراتریس (fa) (emperâtris)
• Polish: cesarzowa (pl) f, imperatorowa f
• Portuguese: imperatriz (pt) f, imperadora (pt) f
• Romanian: împărăteasă (ro) f
• Russian: императри́ца (ru) f (imperatríca)
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-ìmpire f
• Slovene: cesarica (sl) f
• Spanish: emperatriz (es) f
• Swedish: kejsarinna (sv) c
• Telugu: చక్రవర్తిని (te) (cakravartini)
• Turkish: imparatoriçe (tr) f
• Vilamovian: kazeryn f
• Welsh: ymerodres f
• West Frisian: keizerinne c

wife or widow of an emperor

• Arabic: إِمْبْرَاطُورَة f (ʔimbrāṭūra), زَوْجَةْ إِمِبْرَاطُور f (zawjat ʔimibrāṭūr)
• Armenian: կայսրուհի (hy) (kaysruhi)
• Bengali: সম্রাজ্ঞী (śomrajni)
• Catalan: emperadriu (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皇后 (zh) (huánghòu)

• Czech: císařovna (cs) f
• Danish: kejserinde (da) c, (widow) enkekejserinde c
• Dutch: keizerin (nl) f
• Esperanto: imperiestrino
• Finnish: keisarinna (fi); šaahitar (wife or widow of a shah)
• German: Kaiserin (de) f
• Greek: αυτοκράτειρα (el) f (aftokráteira)
• Hungarian: császárné
• Irish: banimpire m
• Italian: imperatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 皇后 (ja) (こうごう, kōgō)
• Khmer: អធិរាជិនី (km) (atʰiriechinii)
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• Korean: 황후 (ko) (hwanghu)
• Latvian: imperatrise f, ķeizariene f
• Lithuanian: imperatorienė f
• Macedonian: царица f (carica), императорка f (imperatorka)
• Malay: maharani
• Manx: ard-venrein f
• Middle English: emperice
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: keiserinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: keisarinne f

• Portuguese: imperatriz (pt) f
• Romanian: împărăteasă (ro) f
• Russian: императри́ца (ru) f (imperatríca)
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-ìmpire f
• Slovene: cesarica (sl) f
• Spanish: emperatriz (es) f
• Welsh: ymerodres f
• West Frisian: keizerinne c

third trump or major arcana

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} imperatrice (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 황후 (ko) (hwanghu)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} imperatrix
• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} महाराणी f (mahārāṇī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} царица f, ^{(please verify)} императорка f

  Latin: ^{(please verify)} carica (sh) f, ^{(please verify)} imperatorka f

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• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} cisárovná (sk) f, (of Russia, Bulgaria) ^{(please verify)} cárovná f
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} imparatoriçe (tr)

Etymology 2

From Middle English empresse, from Anglo-Norman enpresser (“to press, to imprint”), from Old French empresser. Attested from the 15th or late 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹɛs/

Verb

1. Rare form of impress.