imperii
- noun
- /ɪmˈpɛriˌaɪ/
- Formal
- Italian courts only grant organizations immunity for iure imperii acts—i.e., actions that flow from some degree of sovereignty and that cannot ordinarily be carried out by private entities.
Examples
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The different ways in which the two Spanish poets render Castiglione's line can be illuminated through the medieval notion of translatio imperii or transfer of the Roman imperium to another people.
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By poetically merging with the ashes of Carthage, he implicitly deconsecrates the providential ideology of translatio imperii.
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The concept of imperii captures the essence of what it means to have dominion over a vast territory.
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In legal texts, the term imperii often refers to actions taken by the state that are beyond the scope of private individuals.
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Historically, the phrase imperii is used to discuss the transfer of authority from one empire to another.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Imperii is a Latin form of imperium, a word meaning 'command' or 'empire'. You can see the same root in English imperial and the word 'empire', so imperii in old texts means 'of the empire' or 'of imperial power', which is why historians and legal writers use it to show something belongs to the empire.
