Pax Britannica en · PROPN
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.
Meanings
- 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.
Translations (4)
bg Pax Britannica (Translations) · fr Paix Britannique (Translations) · la Pax Britannica (Translations) · bg Пакс Британика (Translations)