2017年8月11日 · SPQR stands for "Senātus Populusque Rōmānus". It would be logical (at least in English or Spanish) to expect the initialism or acronym to be SPR. However, the first letter of the conjunction "-que" is also added to the acronym, forming the well-known SPQR. Why is the Q added to the acronym? Is it to differentiate it from "Senātus Populus ...

We definitely know that SPQR refers to senatus populusque Romanus and not something else. This text is inscribed in full in the temple of Saturn and arch of Titus in Rome. It's hard to say whether the abbreviation is systematic or an arbitrary choice that happened to stick.

In SPQR the adjective is used attributively. It is intended to be a noun phrase, not a statement that the senate and people are Roman. Therefore it should indeed be Romanus, not Romani. As to why the phrase Senatus populusque Romanus is abbreviated SPQR and how we know what the letters stand for, see this question.

We definitely know that SPQR refers to senatus populusque Romanus and not something else. This text is inscribed in full in the temple of Saturn and arch of Titus in Rome. It's hard to say whether the abbreviation is systematic or an arbitrary choice that happened to stick.

All the inscriptions start with a big "SPQR" and end with two lines: "ANNO XI / A FASCIBUS RENOVATIS". (Which seemingly has to do with fascist time reckoning. Only Julius says "ANNO X".) The variable part of them is as follows: (I linked the Emperor's name to high-resolution pictures.) C·IVLIO CAESARI. DICT·PERPETVO

2018年3月17日 · When that came to an end with Julius Caesar's accession to perpetual dictatorship, the Romans didn't rename the nation. They continued saying that they had a republic. They kept making flags that said SPQR. Caesar styled himself imperator to retain the fiction that he was just a military commander, not a monarch. It was a bit like Qadafi ...

2016年8月25日 · I have seen abbreviations used in Latin, but I get the impression that they are often expanded to whole in speech or read as an abbreviation letter by letter. Not all abbreviations are suitable for acronyms. I will not try to pronounce "SPQR" as a single word…

For example, it is "Senatus Populusque Romanus" but it could be "Senatus et Populus Romanus". Similarly, it is "qui ex Patre Filioque procedit" but it could be "qui ex Patre et Filio procedit" Pe...

2020年12月26日 · (It's generally written as part of the word, but that's a modern convention: the ancients abbreviated senatus populus-que Romanus as SPQR, with the -que separate.) Communem here is an adjective modifying amicitiam: …qui Deos et parentes honoraturi sunt communem-que amicitiam non parvi facturi.

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