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Old French
- emperador, emperaor, emperedor, emperedur, empereeur, empereoir, empereour, empereur, emperour, emperur, empreur, empriour
- amperedor, ampereor, anpereeur
- enperaor, enperatouor, enperedor, enpereor, enpereour, enpereur, enperreour
- emperors, emperours, emperus (backformed nominative singular)
- emperaire, empereire, emperere, empereres, emperes, emperier, emperiere, emperieres (original nominative singular)
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Etymology
From Latin imperātōrem. Attested since the eleventh century. Synchronically derivable from emperer + -eor.
Pronunciation
Noun
empereor oblique singular, m (oblique plural empereors, nominative singular emperere, nominative plural empereor)
- emperor, commander
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