vicomte

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English

Etymology

From French vicomte. Doublet of vicecomes and viscount.

Noun

vicomte (plural vicomtes)

A French viscount.

Coordinate terms

vicomtesse

Related terms

comte

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vi.kɔ̃t/
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Noun

vicomte m (plural vicomtes)

viscount

Derived terms

vicomté

Descendants

→ Arabic: فيكونت (vīkōnt)
→ Azerbaijani: vikont
→ English: vicomte
→ Ottoman Turkish: ویقونت (vikont)
- Turkish: vikont
→ Persian: ویکنت (vikont)
→ Russian: вико́нт (vikónt)
→ Uzbek: vikont

Further reading

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

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