landgrave

English

Alternative forms

• landgraf

Etymology

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

Noun

landgrave (plural landgraves)

1. (rare) 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

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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.

Spanish

Noun

landgrave m (plural landgraves)

1. landgrave

Further reading

• “landgrave”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014