Pax 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 c. 1776 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Pax Romana

1. (historical) The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 180 AD.

   Synonym: Pax Augusta

• See pāx

From pāx (“peace”) + Rōmāna (“Roman”), apparently coined by Seneca the Younger in 55 AD

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaːks roːˈmaː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaks roˈmaː.na]

Pāx Rōmāna f sg (genitive Pācis Rōmānae); third declension

1. Pax Romana

Third-declension noun with a first-declension adjective, singular only.