The story
- New Latin · learned borrowing fromPax Britannica
- English todayPax Britannica
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.