Etymograph

English

Pax Romana

Pax Romana comes from Latin Pāx Rōmāna.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEPāx Rōmāna
  2. EnglishtodayPax Romana

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEPāx Rōmāna
  2. EnglishtodayPax Romana

A compound of pāx ‘peace’ + Rōmāna ‘Roman’

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- ‘to join, to attach’

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ḱ-s ‘peace’

Proto-Italic *pāks ‘peace’

Latin pāx ‘peace’

Latin Rōmulus

Latin Rōma ‘Rome’

Latin Rōmānus ‘Roman’

The story

Learned borrowing from Latin Pāx Rōmāna, from pāx (‘peace’) + Rōmāna (‘Roman’), apparently coined by Seneca the Younger in 55 AD and popularized in English by Edward Gibbon in his publication Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).

Every English word from Latin Pāx Rōmāna

Today it means

name The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 180 AD.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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