emperice

Etymology
, contraction of, from ; equivalent to. Final -e is apparently by analogy with other feminine nouns, as the borrowing was early enough for the Middle English gender system to survive.

Noun

 * 1) An empress; a female ruler of an empire.
 * 2) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Franklin's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1045-1048:
 * "enm"

- ‘Your blisful suster, Lucina the shene, That of the see is chief goddesse and quene, Though Neptunus have deitee in the see, Yet emperesse aboven him is she:’ [...]


 * 1) The wife or partner of an empire's ruler.