comte

Borrowed from French comte. Doublet of comes, conte, and count.

comte (plural comtes)

1. A French count.

• comtesse

• vicomte

• Comet, comet

Inherited from Latin comitem. Compare Occitan comte, French comte. Doublet of còmit.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkom.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkom.te]

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comte m (plural comtes, feminine comtessa, feminine plural comtesses)

1. count, earl

• comtat

• “comte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French comte, conte, from Latin comitem.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃t/

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• Homophones: compte, comptent, comptes, comtes, conte, content, contes

comte m (plural comtes, feminine comtesse)

1. count, earl

• → Arabic: كونت (kōnt)
• → Azerbaijani: kont
• → Ottoman Turkish: قونت (kont)
  • Turkish: kont
• → Persian: کنت (kont)
• → Uzbek: kont

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

From Old Occitan comte, from Latin comitem, accusative of comes.

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comte m (plural comtes)

1. (Languedoc, Limousin, Auvergne, Vivaro-alpine, Gascony) count

• comtat
• comtessa
• vescomte
• vescomtat

• cante, conte, cunte

From Latin comitem, accusative singular of comes (the nominative singular cuens or cons is from the Latin nominative comes).

comte oblique singular, m (oblique plural comtes, nominative singular cuens, nominative plural comte)

1. count; earl

• conté

• → English: count
• Middle French: conte
  • French: comte

From Latin comes, comitem.

comte m (oblique plural comtes, nominative singular comtes, nominative plural comte)

1. count (nobleman)

• Occitan: comte