landgrave

English

Alternative forms

• landgraf

Etymology

From German Landgraf, itself from Land (“land, territory, principality”) + Graf (“count”).

Noun

landgrave (plural landgraves)

1. (historical) One holding a specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany.
2. County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal).

Related terms

• landgraviate
• landgravine
• margrave

Translations

renderings of Landgraf

• Catalan: landgravi m
• Czech: lankrabě m
• Danish: landgreve c
• Dutch: landgraaf (nl) m
• Esperanto: landgrafo
• Finnish: maakreivi (fi)
• French: landgrave (fr) m
• German: Landgraf (de) m
• Greek: λανδγράβος (el) m (landgrávos), λανδίγραβος (el) m (landígravos)
• Ido: landgravo (io)
• Italian: langravio (it) m
• Latin: comes prīncipālis m (Mediaeval)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landgreve m

• Portuguese: landegrave m
• Russian: ландгра́ф (ru) (landgráf)
• Slovak: landgróf m
• Spanish: landgrave m
• Welsh: tiriarll m

county nobleman in the British colony Carolina

References

• “landgrave” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

landgrave m (plural landgraves)

1. landgrave

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Landgraf.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃d͡ʒˈɡɾa.vi/, /ˌlɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈɡɾa.vi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃d͡ʒˈɡɾa.vi/, /ˌlɐ̃.d͡ʒiˈɡɾa.vi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃d͡ʒˈɡɾa.ve/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.dɨˈɡɾa.vɨ/ [ˌlɐ̃.dɨˈɣɾa.vɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.dɨˈɡɾa.vɨ/ [ˌlɐ̃.dɨˈɣɾa.vɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.dɨˈɡɾa.bɨ/ [ˌlɐ̃.dɨˈɣɾa.βɨ]

• Hyphenation: land‧gra‧ve

Noun

landgrave m (plural landgraves, feminine landgravina, feminine plural landgravinas)

1. landgrave

Related terms

• landgraviato
• landgraviado

Further reading

• “landgrave”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /landˈɡɾabe/ [lãn̪d̪ˈɣ̞ɾa.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -abe
• Syllabification: land‧gra‧ve

Noun

landgrave m (plural landgraves)

1. landgrave

Further reading

• “landgrave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10