Etymology

Pax Romana

Today it means: The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 180 AD. Full definition →

Latin Pāx Rōmāna
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromPāx Rōmāna
  2. English todayPax Romana

Learned borrowing from Latin Pāx Rōmāna, from pāx (“peace”) + Rōmāna (“Roman”), apparently coined by Seneca the Younger in 55 AD and popularized in English by Edward Gibbon in his publication Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).

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