countess

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman cuntesse, Old French contesse, from Latin comitessa.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkaʊntɨs/, X-SAMPA: /"kaUnt1s/

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Noun

countess (plural countesses)

1. The wife of a count or earl.
2. The title used by a female who holds an earldom in her own right.

   Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.

Translations

wife of a count or earl

• Armenian: կոմսուհի (hy) (komsuhi)
• Breton: kontez (br) f
• Bulgarian: графиня (bg) (grafínja) f
• Catalan: comtessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伯爵夫人 (cmn) (bójué fūrén)

• Czech: hraběnka (cs) f
• Danish: grevinde (da) c
• Dutch: gravin (nl) f
• Esperanto: grafino (eo)
• Finnish: kreivitär (fi)
• French: comtesse (fr) f
• German: Gräfin (de) f
• Greek: κόμισσα (el) (kómissa) f
• Hawaiian: kauna wahine, kaunakeke
• Hebrew: רוזנת (he) f
• Hungarian: grófnő (hu)
• Icelandic: greifafrú (is) f, greifynja (is) f, jarlsfrú (is) f

• Italian: contessa (it) f
• Japanese: 伯爵婦人 (ja) (はくしゃくふじん, hakushaku fujin)
• Latin: comitessa (la) f, cometissa (la) f, cometessa (la) f, comitissa (la) f
• Latvian: grāfiene (lv) f
• Macedonian: грофица (mk) (grófica) f
• Marathi: काउन्टेस (mr) (kāunṭesa) f
• Norwegian: grevinne (no) m
• Old French: contesse f
• Portuguese: condessa (pt) f
• Romanian: contesă (ro) f
• Russian: графиня (ru) (grafínja) f
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-iarla (gd) f
• Slovene: grofica (sl) f
• Spanish: condesa (es) f
• Swedish: grevinna (sv) c
• Turkish: kontes (tr)
• Vietnamese: bá tước phu nhân (vi)

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