One of the early Ivans started using it, it stuck, and even when they tried changing to imperator people kept using tsar/czar.
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One of the early Ivans started using it, it stuck, and even when they tried changing to imperator people kept using tsar/czar.
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One of the early Ivans started using it, it stuck, and even when they tried changing to imperator people kept using tsar/czar.
Example sentences
The last nominal imperator was dethroned by a barbarian in 476AD.
You can easily see why he was an imperator and can probably guess how much far a human can get even in today's society with the mindset he provided in the book.
Elsewhere in the document, he is described as dux bellorum, which literally translates as something like "leader of battles", but which could be a nod to the Roman military title dux, one of a number of such titles that can be loosely rendered as "general".The early Welsh stories about Arthur sometimes call him amerawdwr, which is usually translated "emperor", but which could, like the Latin imperator from which it is derived, also be translated as "commander".As far as I know, the earliest writing to call Arthur a king is Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, conventionally dated to 1136.
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How do you use imperator in a sentence?
One of the early Ivans started using it, it stuck, and even when they tried changing to imperator people kept using tsar/czar.