imperial

From Middle English imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperiālis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -ālis, from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əl/

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imperial (comparative more imperial, superlative most imperial)

1. Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
   • Shakespeare

     the imperial diadem of Rome

2. Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
3. Very grand or fine.
4. Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.

• (humorous): in old money

imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)

1. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
2. (paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
3. (card games, uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
4. (card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
5. A crown imperial.
   • 1816, John Freeman Milward Dovaston, The Sonnet:

     There are who say the sonnet's meted maze

     Is all too fettered for the poet's powers,

     Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers

     Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.

6. A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
7. A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
8. (historical) An outside seat on a diligence.
9. (countable, uncountable) A variety of green tea.

• A champagne or Burgundy wine bottle with the same volume would be called a Methuselah.

• Palmieri

Borrowed from Latin imperiālis.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /im.pə.ɾiˈal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.pe.ɾiˈal/

imperial (masculine and feminine plural imperials)

1. imperial

• emperador
• imperi

• inperial, imperyal, inperyal, imperyall, imperiall, emperiall, empirial

Borrowed from Old French imperial, emperial, from Latin imperiālis; equivalent to emperie +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /impɛriˈaːl/, /imˈpɛːrial/, /ɛm-/

imperial (inflected form imperiale)

1. Imperial; related to or being of an empire or its ruler.
2. Befitting or appropriate for someone of imperial rank; superb.
3. Unsurpassed, unmatched; lacking an equal or equivalent.

• English: imperial
• Scots: imperial

• “imperiā̆l, adj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-24.

Borrowed from Latin imperiālis.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): / ĩ.pɨ.ˈɾjaɫ /
• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧ri‧al

imperial m or f (plural imperiais, comparable)

1. imperial

• império
• emperador

imperial f (plural imperiais)

1. (Portugal, regional) draft beer
   • 2013, Afonso Cruz, Alice Vieira, André Gago, Catarina Fonseca, David Machado, Isabel Stidwell, José Fanha, A misteriosa mulher da ópera, Leya →ISBN, page 155

     «Traga-me mais uma imperial», disse eu ao empregado. Tinha uma praticamente cheia, mas não gosto de ser apanhado desprevenido. O Juvenal julgou que era para ele e agradeceu, eu disse-lhe «nada», e peguei na imperial, passei as ...

• (draft beer): fino, chope (Brazil)

Borrowed from French impérial and Latin imperiālis.

• IPA^(key): /ˌim.pe.riˈal/

imperial m or n (feminine singular imperială, masculine plural imperiali, feminine and neuter plural imperiale)

1. imperial

• imperialism
• imperiu
• împărat

Borrowed from Latin imperiālis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -ālis, from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

imperial (plural imperiales)

1. imperial

• emperador
• imperio