baronessa
See also: baronessą
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
baronessa (plural baronessas)
- An Italian baroness.
- 1979, Meryle Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 391:
- Professor Hartt recalled that, at one of what Berenson liked to call his Sunday afternoon “tea fights,” he was surrounded by contessas, baronessas, and principessas in true Don Giovanni style.
- 1998, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 243:
- By five o’clock, contessas, baronessas, ministers, ambassadors, fashionistas, and local goddesses of Cinecittà began streaming across the huge piazza in front of the Farnese.
- 2014, Marco Malvaldi, translated by Howard Curtis, The Art of Killing Well, MacLehose Press, Quercus Editions Ltd, →ISBN:
- “Oh, these Italian mothers,” replied Ciceri distractedly. “They’re all the same, baronessas or not. Their first concern is that their son eats enough for three people. Everything else is of lesser importance.”
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From baró (“baron”) + -essa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [bə.ɾuˈnɛ.sə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [bə.ɾoˈnə.sə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ba.ɾoˈne.sa]
- Rhymes: -ɛsa
- Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧nes‧sa
Noun edit
baronessa f (plural baronesses, masculine baró)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From barone + -essa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
baronessa m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
baronessa f
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English baroness.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
baronessa f (male equivalent baron)
- (historical) female equivalent of baron (“baroness”) (the female ruler of a barony)
Declension edit
Declension of baronessa
singular | plural | |
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nominative | baronessa | baronessy |
genitive | baronessy | baroness |
dative | baronessie | baronessom |
accusative | baronessę | baronessy |
instrumental | baronessą | baronessami |
locative | baronessie | baronessach |
vocative | baronesso | baronessy |
Related terms edit
adjectives
nouns
Further reading edit
Swedish edit
Noun edit
baronessa c
- a baroness
Declension edit
Declension of baronessa | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | baronessa | baronessan | baronessor | baronessorna |
Genitive | baronessas | baronessans | baronessors | baronessornas |