imperiului

Imperiului is the genitive/dative singular form of the Romanian noun imperiu, meaning empire. It is used to indicate possession or an indirect object, appearing in phrases such as istoria imperiului (the history of the empire) and puterea imperiului (the power of the empire).

The term imperiu derives from Latin imperium and entered Romanian through historical contact with Latin and Romance-speaking communities. In Romanian literature and historiography, imperiu is used to refer to large political formations traditionally labeled as empires, such as the Roman, Byzantine, or Ottoman polities, as well as the broader concept of imperial rule. The form imperiului appears frequently in texts to express relationships of possession, association, or direction toward that polity.

Declension and grammar: imperiu (singular nominative), imperiului (singular genitive/dative), imperiile (plural nominative/accusative, definite), imperiilor (plural genitive/dative). The definite singular is imperiul, and the definite plural is imperiile. In use, imperiului functions within noun phrases to denote “of the empire” or “to/for the empire,” depending on the syntactic role.

Usage and context: common in historical, political, and scholarly writing, as well as in literary descriptions of empires. It functions in constructions that describe ownership, affiliation, or relation to imperial power, and appears in phrases like reformele imperiului (the reforms of the empire) or țara Imperiului Roman (the country of the Roman Empire).

See also: Imperiu; Romanian grammar; List of empires.