conte
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian conte. Doublet of comes, comte, and count.
Noun edit
conte (plural contes)
- An Italian count.
- Coordinate term: contessa
- 1895 July 13, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Long Vacation”, in The Churchman: An Illustrated Weekly News-Magazine, volume LXXII, number 2 (whole 2634), New York, N.Y.: M. H. Mallory & Co., chapter XXVIII (Rocca Marina), page 52 (24), column 3:
- So she led the way through a marble hall, pillared in different colors, rich and rare, with portraits of ancient contes and contessas on the walls, up a magnificent stone stair with a carved balustrade, to a suite indeed, where, at the entrance, Sibby was found very happy at her welcome from Mrs. Mount, who was equally glad to receive a countrywoman.
- 1986, Heather Graham Pozzessere, The Di Medici Bride, Silhouette Intimate Moments, →ISBN, page 130:
- “Aspirin. It will help you to sleep tonight if you have aches and pains, or cold clammy dreams about dead contes and contessas,” he teased.
- 2006, Mark Lamster, Spalding’s World Tour: The Epic Adventure That Took Baseball Around the Globe—and Made It America’s Game, PublicAffairs™, →ISBN:
- The announcement of the game had put Florentine society “in a flurry,” and two thousand spectators—including enough contes and contessas to fill half the palaces of Florence—made the trip beyond the city limits to view the match.
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin comitem (the 'o' being stressed and the 'i' disappearing), accusative of comes (“companion”). Ultimately cognate to English count (nobility).
Noun edit
conte m (feminine contesa)
Related terms edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin computus, or deverbal from contar.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
conte m (plural contes)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “conte” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “conte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “conte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “conte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French conte, from Old French conte, compte, derived from the verb conter, compter, or from Latin computus. See compte.
Noun edit
conte m (plural contes)
Derived terms edit
- conte de bonne femme
- conte de fées (“fairy-tale”)
- conte moral
Descendants edit
- → Japanese: コント (konto)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
conte
- inflection of conter:
Further reading edit
- “conte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Verb edit
conte
- inflection of contar:
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
conte m (plural conti, feminine contessa)
Related terms edit
See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
conte
Further reading edit
- conte in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- conte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- conte in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- conte in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- conte in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- conte in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkon.te/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.te/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪e]
Noun edit
conte
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *kunta (“vagina”), from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ.
Noun edit
conte f
Descendants edit
- Dutch: kont
Further reading edit
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “conte”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English edit
Noun edit
conte
- Alternative form of cunte
Middle French edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French conte, compte.
Noun edit
conte f (plural contes)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old French comte.
Noun edit
conte m (plural contes)
- count (nobleman)
Descendants edit
- French: comte
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
- cunte (all senses, Anglo-Norman)
Etymology 1 edit
First attested circa 980 as compte. Deverbal of conter.[1]
Noun edit
conte oblique singular, m (oblique plural contes, nominative singular contes, nominative plural conte)
- story; tale; fable
- count (record of a number or amount)
- 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
- Tant en asamble n'en sai conte tenir.
- He got together so many that I can't keep count
References edit
- ^ Etymology and history of “compte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology 2 edit
See comte.
Noun edit
conte oblique singular, m (oblique plural contes, nominative singular cuens, nominative plural conte)
- Alternative form of comte
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: con‧te
Verb edit
conte
- inflection of contar:
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
conte m (plural conți, feminine equivalent contesă)
Declension edit
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- en:Nobility
- Aragonese terms inherited from Latin
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- Rhymes:Italian/onte
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