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imperio

noun

LanguagePortuguese (Portugal)

Meaning
  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of império
  2. empire
  3. An older, outdated way of spelling the word for empire before language reforms.
Examples

Antigamente escrevia-se imperio.

In the past, one wrote imperio.

Part of speechnoun

Usage noteThis is a pre-reform spelling of 'império'. It should not be used in modern writing.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.