countess

English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman cuntesse, Old French contesse, from Latin comitessa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊntɨs/
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Noun

countess (plural countesses)

The wife of a count or earl.
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.

Translations

wife of a count or earl

Armenian: կոմսուհի (hy) (komsuhi)
Breton: kontez (br) f
Bulgarian: графиня f (grafínja)
Catalan: comtessa (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 伯爵夫人 (bójué fūrén)
Czech: hraběnka f
Danish: grevinde c
Dutch: gravin (nl) f
Esperanto: grafino
Finnish: kreivitär
French: comtesse (fr) 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 (grófica)
Marathi: काउन्टेस f (kāunṭesa)
Norwegian: grevinne m
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
Slovene: grofica (sl) f
Spanish: condesa (es) f
Swedish: grevinna (sv) c
Turkish: kontes (tr)
Vietnamese: bá tước phu nhân
Yiddish: גראַפֿין‎‎ f (grafin), גראַפֿיניע‎‎ f (grafinye)

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