English
Pax Britannica
Pax Britannica comes from New Latin Pax Britannica.
- New Latinc. 1500–1900Pax Britannica
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- New Latinc. 1500–1900Pax Britannica
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of pāx ‘peace’ + Britannica ‘British’
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- ‘to join, to attach’
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ḱ-s ‘peace’
Proto-Italic *pāks ‘peace’
New Latin pāx ‘peace’
Ancient Greek Βρεττᾰνός ‘a Briton or Brython’
Ancient Greek Βρεττανία
Latin Britannia ‘Britain’
New Latin Britannicus ‘British’
first attested Earliest recorded use is in 1871 in a work by the British jurist and historian Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (as stated in the etymology)
The story
Earliest recorded use is in 1871 in a work by the British jurist and historian Sir Henry James Sumner Maine.
Every English word from New Latin Pax Britannica
Today it means
name The period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and the onset of World War I in 1914.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / New Latin Pax Britannica / Pax Britannica