Not even an Empress of Equestria in the show. The highest attainable rank appears to be Princess.
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Replying to @windy_rockbell @BootlegGirl
True, though, fun fact, Princess is the feminised version of Prince, which is the anglicised version of Princeps, which is the actual title used by Roman “Emperors” through a fair portion of the empire’s existence.
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A fun fact that's actually fun! It's an internet miracle!
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I know right! But yeah that one is one of those weird historical oddities where we’ve ended up applying Roman terminology strangely because of historical accidents.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @TheBrianMcNatt and
What's strange is that it ended up as a kind of low title; below a king and particularly, one of the sons of the king. It means "first"!
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Replying to @mssilverstein @TheBrianMcNatt and
That’s a peculiarity of English, though. In other European languages it ended up being the generic word for “ruler”.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @TheBrianMcNatt and
True (and to some extent, it is in English, though not in particularly common usage). There is the French "prince du sang," which is also somewhat generic.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @bazzalisk and
You still hear stuff from the King James Bible like calling the Devil "the prince of this world" and referring to demons as "powers and principalities"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
"Emperor" outranking "king" or "prince" is a historical accident too "Imperator" literally just means "commander", like a military commander, and the noun "imperium" means "command" (ie the people a commander has authority over)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
When Augustus Caesar became the first Emperor and ended the Republic he basically used various titles as euphemisms to avoid actually calling himself a "king" (Rex) from the "bad old days" of pre-Republic Rome Like how modern dictators go by "General" or "Generalissimo"
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For that matter that's where we get the word "dictator" (in the Roman Republic a leader who put the country under martial law under a time of emergency was a "dictator", i.e. "order-giver")
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