Highness

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Etymology

Calque of Italian altezza, from Late Latin altitia, from altus +‎ -itia, equivalent to high +‎ -ness. See highness for formation of the English term.

Noun

Highness (plural Highnesses)

1. The style of a prince, princess or someone of equivalent rank.
2. (obsolete) The style of an emperor or king.

Usage notes

• (both senses): The style is typically used with a possessive pronoun: Your Highness, Their Highnesses, et al.

Synonyms

• (obsolete: style of emperor or king): Majesty (current)

Derived terms

• HRH
• Imperial Highness
• Royal Highness
• Your Serene Highness

Translations

form of address

Arabic: سُمُوّ (ar) m (sumuww), سُمُوَّة f (sumuwwa) Belarusian: высо́касць f (vysókascʹ) Bulgarian: висо́чество n (visóčestvo) Catalan: altesa Chinese: Mandarin: 殿下 (zh) (diànxià), 閣下 / 阁下 (zh) (géxià) Czech: výsost f Danish: højhed c Dutch: hoogheid (nl) f Erzya: сэрейчи (sërejči) Esperanto: alteco Finnish: ylhäisyys (fi) French: altesse (fr) f German: Hoheit (de) f Greek: Υψηλότατος (el) m (Ypsilótatos), Υψηλοτάτη (el) f (Ypsilotáti) Italian: altezza (it) f Japanese: 殿下 (ja) (でんか, denka) Korean: 전하(殿下) (ko) (jeonha) Latvian: augstība f Macedonian: висо́чество n (visóčestvo) Norwegian: Bokmål: høyhet m or f Polish: wysokość (pl) f Portuguese: alteza (pt) f Romanian: alteță (ro) f Russian: высо́чество (ru) n (vysóčestvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: височа̀нство n Roman: visočànstvo (sh) n Slovak: výsosť f Slovene: visočanstvo n Spanish: alteza (es) f Ukrainian: висо́кість (uk) f (vysókistʹ) Welsh: Uchelder m