countess

See also: Countess

English

Alternative forms

• Countess

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman cuntesse, Old French contesse, from Latin comitessa; equivalent to count +‎ -ess. Doublet of contessa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊntɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

countess (plural countesses)

1. The wife of a count or earl.
2. A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.

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

Synonyms

• (the wife of an earl, a female holder of an earldom): earless (nonstandard)

Hyponyms

• comtesse (“French countess”)
• contessa (“Italian countess”)
• gräfin (“German countess”)

Derived terms

• Countess Wear

Translations

wife of a count or earl

• Armenian: կոմսուհի (hy) (komsuhi)
• Azerbaijani: qrafinya
• Belarusian: графі́ня f (hrafínja), грапі́ня f (hrapínja)
• Breton: kontez (br) f
• Bulgarian: графи́ня f (grafínja)
• Catalan: comtessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伯爵夫人 (bójué fūrén)

• Czech: hraběnka (cs) f
• Danish: grevinde c
• Dutch: gravin (nl) f
• Esperanto: grafino
• Finnish: kreivitär
• French: comtesse (fr) f
• Galician: condesa f
• German: Gräfin (de) f
• Greek: κόμισσα (el) f (kómissa)
• Hawaiian: kauna wahine, kaunakeke
• Hebrew: רוזנת f
• Hungarian: grófnő (hu)
• Icelandic: greifafrú f, greifynja f, jarlsfrú f
• Irish: cuntaois f
• Italian: contessa (it) f
• Japanese: 伯爵婦人 (はくしゃくふじん, hakushaku fujin)
• Latin: comitessa f, cometissa f, cometessa f, comitissa f
• Latvian: grāfiene f
• Lithuanian: grafienė f
• Macedonian: грофица f (grofica)
• Marathi: काउन्टेस f (kāunṭes)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grevinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: grevinne f

• Old French: contesse f
• Polish: hrabina (pl) f
• Portuguese: condessa (pt) f
• Romanian: contesă (ro) f
• Russian: графи́ня (ru) f (grafínja)
• Scottish Gaelic: ban-iarla f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грофица f

  Roman: grofica (sh) f

• Slovak: grófka (sk) f
• Slovene: grofica (sl) f
• Spanish: condesa (es) f
• Swedish: grevinna (sv) c
• Tagalog: kondesa (tl)
• Turkish: kontes (tr)
• Ukrainian: графи́ня f (hrafýnja)
• Uzbek: grafinya (uz)
• Vietnamese: bá tước phu nhân
• Yiddish: גראַפֿין f (grafin), גראַפֿיניע f (grafinye)

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