"viscountess" meaning in All languages combined

See viscountess on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: viscountesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English viscountes, viscountesse, probably from Middle French viscontesse; equivalent to viscount + -ess. Doublet of vicomtesse. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|viscountes}} Middle English viscountes, {{m|enm|viscountesse}} viscountesse, {{der|en|frm|viscontesse}} Middle French viscontesse, {{suffix|en|viscount|ess|nocat=1}} viscount + -ess, {{doublet|en|vicomtesse}} Doublet of vicomtesse Head templates: {{en-noun}} viscountess (plural viscountesses)
  1. The wife of a viscount. Categories (topical): Female people, Nobility Translations (viscount's wife): vicgrafino (Esperanto), varakreivitär (Finnish), vicomtesse [feminine] (French), viscontessa [feminine] (Italian), 子爵 (shishaku) (Japanese), виконте́са (vikontésa) [feminine] (Macedonian), viscondessa [feminine] (Portuguese), vicontesă [feminine] (Romanian), vizcondesa [feminine] (Spanish), biskondesa (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-viscountess-en-noun-w2vb9WGT Disambiguation of Female people: 68 32 Disambiguation of Nobility: 53 47 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ess (wife) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess (wife): 45 55 Disambiguation of "viscount's wife": 70 30
  2. A woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right. Categories (topical): Nobility Translations (a woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right): vicgrafino (Esperanto), vicomtesse [feminine] (French), viscontessa [feminine] (Italian), 子爵 (shishaku) (Japanese), lhiass-ven-eearley [masculine] (Manx), wicehrabina [feminine] (Polish), viscondessa [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-viscountess-en-noun-SWk3pvL6 Disambiguation of Nobility: 53 47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ess (female), English terms suffixed with -ess (wife) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess (female): 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess (wife): 45 55 Disambiguation of 'a woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right': 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: V [symbol], Vis., Visc., Visct [abbreviation], Vtesse [contraction] Hyponyms: vicomtesse (english: French viscountess)

Inflected forms

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