mikado

Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).


prince

→ Ottoman Turkish: پرَنْس (prens)

Turkish: prens

→ Persian: پرَنس (perans)

Inherited from Middle French prince, from Old French prince, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin prīnceps.


baron

fr-noun

baron m (plural barons, feminine baronne)

Haitian Creole: baron

→ Arabic: بارون (bārōn)

→ Hungarian: báró

→ Polish: baron

→ Ottoman Turkish: بارون (baron)

Turkish: baron

→ Persian: بارون (bâron)

→ Romanian: baron

desctree

→ Russian: баро́н (barón)
→ Armenian: բարոն (baron)
→ Azerbaijani: baron
→ Georgian: ბარონი (baroni)
→ Ingrian: baroni
→ Uzbek: baron

Inherited from Middle French baron, from Old French baron, from Latin barōnem.


tsar

desc

→ Persian: تزار (tezâr), تسار (tesâr) (rare)

From Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of César.


royal

fr-adj

royal (feminine royale, masculine plural royaux, feminine plural royales)

royale (feminine)
royaux (masculine plural)
royales (feminine plural)

→ Belarusian: рая́ль (rajálʹ)

→ Bulgarian: роя́л (rojál)

→ Lithuanian: rojalis

→ Russian: роя́ль (rojálʹ)

→ Ukrainian: роя́ль (rojálʹ)

Inherited from Middle French roial, from Old French roial, from earlier reial, real, from very early Old French (c. 880) regiel, from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”) + -ālis. Equivalent to roi + -al.


noble

→ Danish: nobel

→ German: nobel

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin nōbilis according to the TLFi dictionary.


roi

Antillean Creole: wa

Guianese Creole: rwè

Haitian Creole: wa

(perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
→ English: loa

Karipúna Creole French: hué

Louisiana Creole: rwa

Seychellois Creole: lerwa

Inherited from Middle French roy, from Old French roi, rei, from Latin rēgem.

au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois


reine

Rennes (may be short in length-distinguishing accents)

Inherited from Old French reïne, reyne, royne, from Latin rēgīna.

Je ferai un domaine où l’amour sera roi, où l’amour sera loi, où tu seras reine

I will create a realm where love will be king, where love will be law, where you will be queen


monarchie

Learned borrowing from Late Latin monarchia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μοναρχία (monarkhía).


monarque

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόναρχος (mónarkhos).


couronne

Inherited from Old French corone, inherited from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē).


duc

→ Arabic: دُوق (dūq)

→ English: duc

→ Persian: دوک (duk)

→ Turkish: dük

Inherited from Middle French duc, from Old French duc, borrowed from Latin ducem (“duke, commander”), from dūcere (“to lead”).


Valois

the dynasty that ruled France in the 14th to 16th centuries


sceptre

Borrowed from Latin scēptrum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron).


comte

fr-noun

comte m (plural comtes, feminine comtesse)

→ Arabic: كونت (kōnt)

→ Azerbaijani: kont

→ Ottoman Turkish: قونت (kont)

Turkish: kont

→ Persian: کنت (kont)

→ Uzbek: kont

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


marquis

marquis m (plural marquis, feminine marquise)

→ Arabic: مَرْكِيز (markīz)

→ Belarusian: маркі́з (markíz)

→ Macedonian: маркиз (markiz)

→ Ottoman Turkish: ماركی (marki)

Turkish: marki

→ Persian: مارکی (mârki)

→ Polish: markiz

→ Romanian: marchiz

desctree

→ Russian: марки́з (markíz)
→ Armenian: մարկիզ (markiz)
→ Azerbaijani: markiz
→ Uzbek: markiz

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: маркиз

Latin script: markiz

→ Ukrainian: маркі́з (markíz)

From Old French marchis, from the same origin as marcher.


maharaja

fr-noun

maharaja m (plural maharajas, feminine maharani)


sultan

sultan m (plural sultans, feminine sultane)

→ Faroese: sultánur

→ Portuguese: sultão

Inherited from Middle French sultan (“ruler of a Muslim state”), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان. See English sultan for more.


noblesse oblige

Literally, “nobility obliges”. See noblesse and obliger.

noble or more generally high-ranked people have honourable obligations towards lower-ranked or less fortunate ones, and should behave nobly towards them


noblesse

From Old French, see noble + -esse.
* Cognate with Catalan noblesa, Portuguese nobreza, Spanish nobleza


Ancien Régime

From ancien (“former”) + régime (“rule, order”).


marquise

→ Danish: markise

→ English: marquise

→ German: Markise

→ Ottoman Turkish: ماركیز (markiz)

Turkish: markiz

→ Persian: مارکیز (mârkiz)

→ Portuguese: marquise, marquesa

→ Romanian: marchiză

marchioness (a member of foreign nobility)


princesse

fr-noun

princesse f (plural princesses, masculine prince)

→ Catalan: princesa

desctree

→ Danish: prinsesse
Faroese: prinsessa
Icelandic: prinsessa

→ Ottoman Turkish: پرَنْسَس (prenses)

Turkish: prenses

→ Persian: پرَنسِس (peranses)

→ Portuguese: princesa

→ Spanish: princesa

→ Swedish: prinsessa
→ Finnish: prinsessa


vicomte

→ Arabic: فيكونت (vīkōnt)

→ Azerbaijani: vikont

→ English: vicomte

→ Ottoman Turkish: ویقونت (vikont)
Turkish: vikont

→ Persian: ویکنت (vikont)

→ Russian: вико́нт (vikónt)

→ Uzbek: vikont

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


souverain

fr-adj

souverain (feminine souveraine, masculine plural souverains, feminine plural souveraines)

souveraine (feminine)
souverains (masculine plural)
souveraines (feminine plural)

→ Danish: suveræn

→ German: souverän

→ Romanian: suveran

Inherited from Old French soverain, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, from Latin super. Compare Italian sovrano; Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish soberano.


trône

→ Romanian: tron

Inherited from Middle French throne, from Old French trosne, trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair”, “throne”).

der

Il s’est approché du trône respectueusement. ― He approached the throne reverently.

Le gamin est sur le trône.


duchesse

fr-noun

duchesse f (plural duchesses, masculine duc)

→ English: duchesse

→ Persian: دوشس (dušes)

→ Turkish: düşes

Inherited from Old French duchesse. By surface analysis, duc (“duke”) + -esse (“-ess”).


royaume

Inherited from Old French reaume, realme, a derivative of real, or from an alteration (with influence from royal) of Old French reiame, from Latin regimine. Compare régime.

il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark


comtesse

fr-noun

comtesse f (plural comtesses, masculine comte)

→ Danish: komtesse

→ English: comtesse

→ Turkish: kontes

From Middle French contese, contesse, from Old French contesce, contesse, cuntesse; equivalent to comte (“earl”) + -esse (“-ess”).


règne

Inherited from Middle French regne, from Old French regne, borrowed from Latin rēgnum.

reign, ruling, rule (period of reigning or ruling)


principauté

Learned borrowing from Latin principālitās. Morphologically, from principal + -té. Doublet of principalité.

lbor

principauté de Monaco

principauté de Liège

principality (region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess)


empereur

fr-noun

empereur m (plural empereurs, feminine impératrice)

empereurs (plural)
impératrice (feminine)

From Middle French empereur, from Old French empereor, from Latin imperātōrem.


impératrice

impératrice f (plural impératrices, masculine empereur)

impératrices (plural)
empereur (masculine)

Borrowed from Latin imperātrīcem. Compare Old French empereriz.


pharaon

→ Khmer: ផារ៉ោន (phaaraon)


prétendant

prétendant m (plural prétendants, feminine prétendante)

prétendants (plural)
prétendante (feminine)

Leurs petites rentes les rendaient exigeants et les poussaient à rêver pour leur fille unique un prétendant extraordinaire.

1877, Marius Roux, Eugénie Lamour, page 237:

Their small income made them exacting and pushed them to dream of an extraordinary suitor for their only daughter.


suivante

lady-in-waiting, lady's maid (woman who is a servant to a lady, especially a woman of the nobility or upper class)


dynastie

From Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek δυναστεία (dunasteía, “power, dominion”).


impérial

fr-adj

impérial (feminine impériale, masculine plural impériaux, feminine plural impériales)

impériale (feminine)
impériaux (masculine plural)
impériales (feminine plural)


archiduc

desc

→ Arabic: أَرْشِيدُوق (ʔaršīdūq)

→ Arabic: أَرْشِيدُوق (ʔaršīdūq)

→ Persian: آرشیدوک (âršiduk)

→ Ottoman Turkish: آرشیدوق (arşidük)

Turkish: arşidük


aristocratie

Inherited from Middle French aristocratie, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ (aristokratíā, “the rule of the best”).

der

ἀριστοκρατίᾱ


royauté

Inherited from Old French roialte. By surface analysis, royal + -té.


anoblir

anoblir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
anoblissant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
anobli (participle past)
anoblis (first-person indicative present singular)
anoblis (indicative present second-person singular)
anoblit (indicative present singular third-person)
anoblissons (first-person indicative plural present)
anoblissez (indicative plural present second-person)
anoblissent (indicative plural present third-person)
anoblissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
anoblissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
anoblissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
anoblissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
anoblissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
anoblissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
anoblis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
anoblis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
anoblit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
anoblîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
anoblîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
anoblirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
anoblirai (first-person future indicative singular)
anobliras (future indicative second-person singular)
anoblira (future indicative singular third-person)
anoblirons (first-person future indicative plural)
anoblirez (future indicative plural second-person)
anobliront (future indicative plural third-person)
anoblirais (conditional first-person singular)
anoblirais (conditional second-person singular)
anoblirait (conditional singular third-person)
anoblirions (conditional first-person plural)
anobliriez (conditional plural second-person)
anobliraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
anoblisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
anoblisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
anoblisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
anoblissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
anoblissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
anoblissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
anoblisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
anoblisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
anoblît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
anoblissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
anoblissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
anoblissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
anoblis (imperative second-person singular)
anoblissons (first-person imperative plural)
anoblissez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive) to ennoble, to knight (to bestow nobility, knighthood or a similar title upon somebody)


grand-duc

fr-noun

grand-duc m (plural grands-ducs, feminine grande-duchesse)

grands-ducs (plural)
grande-duchesse (feminine)

desc

→ Arabic: غْرَانْدُوق (ḡrāndūq)

→ Arabic: غْرَانْدُوق (ḡrāndūq)

→ English: grand-duc

→ Persian: گراندوک (gerânduk)

→ Turkish: grandük

faire la tournée des grands-ducs


aristocrate

fr-noun

aristocrate m or f by sense (plural aristocrates)


vicomtesse

vicomtesse f (plural vicomtesses, masculine vicomte)

vicomtesses (plural)
vicomte (masculine)

→ English: vicomtesse

From Middle French vicontesse, viscontesse; equivalent to vicomte (“viscount”) + -esse (“-ess”).


dame d'honneur

dame d’honneur f (plural dames d’honneur)

dame d’ honneur (canonical feminine)
dames d’honneur (plural)

maid of honor/matron of honor, lady-in-waiting


régent

Borrowed from Latin regente, singular ablative of regēns.


archiduchesse

archiduchesse f (plural archiduchesses, masculine archiduc)

archiduchesses (plural)
archiduc (masculine)

→ Persian: آرشیدوشس (âršidušes)

→ Turkish: arşidüşes

From archi- + duc (“duke”) + -esse (“-ess”).


carolingien

fr-adj

carolingien (feminine carolingienne, masculine plural carolingiens, feminine plural carolingiennes)

carolingienne (feminine)
carolingiens (masculine plural)
carolingiennes (feminine plural)


arrière-ban

English: arriere-ban

Inherited from Middle French, Old French arriereban, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *ad retrō (literally “to the rear”), from Latin ad + retrō.
Equivalent to arrière- (“behind”) + ban.

inh

D’après une ordonnance de Charles VIII, la charge du ban et de l’arrière-ban ne peut pas non plus être imposée à ceux d’entre eux qui tiennent des fiefs.

1888, Henri Carré, Recherches sur l’administration municipale de Rennes au temps de Henri IV:

According to an ordinance of Charles VIII, the burden of the ban and the arrière-ban cannot also be imposed on those of whom hold fiefs.

(historical) an assembly of feudal lords


héritier présomptif

fr-noun

héritier présomptif m (plural héritiers présomptifs, feminine héritière présomptive)

héritiers présomptifs (plural)
héritière présomptive (feminine)


héritier apparent

héritier apparent m (plural héritiers apparents, feminine héritière apparente)

héritiers apparents (plural)
héritière apparente (feminine)


bien né

fr-adj

bien né (feminine bien née, masculine plural bien nés, feminine plural bien nées)

bien née (feminine)
bien nés (masculine plural)
bien nées (feminine plural)


titre de noblesse

fr-noun

titre de noblesse m (plural titres de noblesse)


Dupont de Ligonnès

Previously spelled du Pont de Ligonnès. From Occitan [Term?].


saljuqide

Seljuk (of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule)


grande-duchesse

grande-duchesse f (plural grandes-duchesses)

→ Persian: گراندوشس (gerândušes)

Inherited from Middle French grand duchesse, grant duchesse.