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  2. List of Latin honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Latin language was lingua franca in Europe for a long time. Below is a list of Latin honorifics and their abbreviations found in various texts, not necessary Latin. [1]Certain honorifics may be prepended with the intensive prefix prae-, indicating very high degree, e.g., praepotens (very powerful), as well as used in superlative form, such as clarissimus, and even constructed by the ...

  3. Pater Patriae - Wikipedia

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    Pater Patriae (plural Patres Patriae) was an honorific title in ancient Rome. In Latin, it means "father of the country", or more literally, "father of the fatherland". The title was granted by the Roman Senate. During the Roman Republic, it was given only two times: to Camillus and Cicero.

  4. Father of the Nation - Wikipedia

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    The Father of the Nation is an honorific title given to a person considered the driving force behind the establishment of a country, state, or nation. Pater Patriae (plural Patres Patriae), also seen as Parens Patriae, was a Roman honorific meaning the "Father of the Fatherland", bestowed by the Senate on heroes, and later on emperors.

  5. Cursus honorum - Wikipedia

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    The cursus honorum (Latin for 'course of honors', or more colloquially 'ladder of offices'; Latin: [ˈkʊrsʊs hɔˈnoːrũː]) was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank.

  6. Dominus (title) - Wikipedia

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    Dominus was used as a Roman imperial title. It was also the Latin title of the feudal , superior and mesne , lords , and an ecclesiastical and academic title. The ecclesiastical title was rendered through the French seigneur in English as sir , making it a common prefix for parsons before the Reformation , as in Sir Hugh Evans in Shakespeare's ...

  7. Honorifics (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. . Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical ...

  8. Victory title - Wikipedia

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    A victory title is an honorific title adopted by a successful military commander to commemorate his defeat of an enemy nation. The practice is first known in Ancient Rome and is still most commonly associated with the Romans, but it was also adopted as a practice by many later empires, especially the French, British and Russian Empires.

  9. Honorificabilitudinitatibus - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Blount listed the anglicized form of the word, honorificabilitudinity (defined as "honorableness"), among the 11,000 hard or unusual words in his 1656 Glossographia, the largest English dictionary at the time. [53] [54] [55] The entry was quoted by Elisha Coles in An English Dictionary, published in 1676.