Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pax britannica

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English

Syllables: pax bri-tan-ni-ca
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Pax Britannica, from pāx (“peace”) + Britannica (“British”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna. Earliest recorded use is in 1871 in a work by the British jurist and historian Sir Henry James Sumner Maine.

Questions

What does pax britannica mean?: 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.
Where does pax britannica come from?: Learned borrowing from New Latin Pax Britannica, from pāx (“peace”) + Britannica (“British”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna. Earliest recorded use is in 1871 in a work by the British jurist and historian Sir Henry James Sumner Maine.

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