landgraf

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English

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Noun

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landgraf (plural landgrafs)

  1. Alternative form of landgrave
    • 1847, Washington M’Cartney, The Origin and Progress of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. H. Butler & Co., pages 58–59:
      Germany had its herzogs and landgrafs, each of whom had his territories, where he ruled, “monarch of all he surveyed.”
    • 1868, “E´SCHWEGÉ”, in Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume IV, London: W. and R. Chambers [], page 125:
      The only building of note is the castle, which was long the residence of the landgrafs of Hessen-Rotenberg.
    • 1989, Jole Shackelford, Paracelsianism in Denmark and Norway in the 16th and 17th Centuries, page 264:
      The landgrafs of Hessen-Kassel were sympathetic to Calvinism, which created an intellectual atmosphere that not only tolerated Paracelsianism, not unlike that of Hemmingsen’s Copenhagen, but fostered religio Paracelsica as well.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Landgraf.

Noun

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landgraf m (plural landgrafi)

  1. landgrave

Declension

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