viscount

See also: Viscount

English

Alternative forms

• V (symbol)
• Vis., Visc. (abbreviations)
• Visct, Vte (contractions)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman viscounte, from Medieval Latin vicecomes, from Latin vice + comes. Equivalent to vice- + count. Doublet of vicecomes and vicomte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪkaʊnt/, enPR: vīʹkount

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

viscount (plural viscounts, feminine viscountess)

1. A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.

   Hyponym: vicomte (“French viscount”)

2. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and counts.

Derived terms

• viscountcy
• viscounty

Related terms

• (female form or wife): viscountess
• (adjectival form): vicecomital, vicontiel, viscomital

Translations

a member of the peerage above a baron but below a count or earl

• Arabic: فيكونت m (vīkōnt)
• Armenian: վիկոնտ (hy) (vikont), դերկոմս (hy) (derkoms)
• Azerbaijani: vikont
• Breton: beskont (br) m
• Bulgarian: вико́нт m (vikónt)
• Catalan: vescomte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子爵 (zh) (zǐjué)

• Czech: vikomt (cs) m
• Dutch: burggraaf (nl) m
• Esperanto: vicgrafo
• Estonian: vikont
• Finnish: varakreivi (fi)
• French: vicomte (fr) m
• Georgian: ვიკონტი (viḳonṭi)
• German: Vicomte (de) m
• Greek: υποκόμης (el) m (ypokómis)
• Hungarian: algróf, vikomt
• Icelandic: vísigreifi m
• Italian: visconte (it) m, viscontessa f
• Japanese: 子爵 (ja) (ししゃく, shishaku)
• Khmer: ហ្លួង (km) (luəng)
• Korean: 자작 (ko) (jajak) (子爵 (ko))
• Macedonian: вико́нт m (vikónt)
• Manchu: ᠵᡳᠩᡴᡳᠨᡳ
  ᡥᠠᡶᠠᠨ (jingkini hafan)
• Ottoman Turkish: ویقونت (vikont)
• Persian: ویکنت (fa) (vikont)
• Polish: wicehrabia (pl) m
• Portuguese: visconde (pt) m
• Romanian: viconte (ro) m
• Russian: вико́нт (ru) m (vikónt)
• Slovene: viskont m
• Spanish: vizconde (es)
• Swedish: vicomte c
• Tagalog: biskonde
• Turkish: vikont (tr)
• Ukrainian: віко́нт m (vikónt)
• Uzbek: vikont (uz)
• Vietnamese: tử tước (vi) (子爵)

See also

• (related titles): baron, don, duke, earl, lord, marquess, prince

Further reading

• viscount on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• vicounts