vicomte

English

Etymology

From French vicomte. Doublet of vicecomes and viscount.

Noun

vicomte (plural vicomtes)

1. A French viscount.

Coordinate terms

• vicomtesse

Related terms

• comte

French

Etymology

From Old French visconte, reduced form of Old French vice conte, from Medieval Latin vicecomes, < Latin vices comes. See vice- and comte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.kɔ̃t/

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Noun

vicomte m (plural vicomtes)

1. viscount

Derived terms

• vicomté

Descendants

• → Arabic: فيكونت (vīkōnt)
• → Azerbaijani: vikont
• → English: vicomte
• → Ottoman Turkish: ویقونت (vikont)
  • Turkish: vikont
• → Persian: ویکنت (vikont)
• → Russian: вико́нт (vikónt)
• → Uzbek: vikont

Further reading

• “vicomte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.