countess

See also: Countess

English

Alternative forms

• Countess

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊntɪs/

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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
• countessly

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 (fi) 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 Sicilian: cuntissa 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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