impērija

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin imperium (“power, command”), made into a 4th declension feminine noun ( +‎ -ija).

impērija f (4th declension)

1. empire (a monarchic state, especially a large one)

   Romas impērija ― the Roman empire

   pēc 1825. gada decembra sacelšanās Nikolaja impērija dažam šķita, ka jāslapstās pustumsā ― after the 1825 December riots, it seemed to some (people) that Nicholas' empire was suffocating itself in the darkness

• cariste
• karaliste
• ķeizariste

• imperators, imperatore, imperatrise
• imperiālisms, imperiālists, imperiāliste, imperiālistisks