landgrave

English

Etymology

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

Noun

landgrave (plural landgraves)

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

Related terms

Translations

renderings of Landgraf

Catalan: landgravi m
Czech: lankrabě m
Danish: landgreve c
Dutch: landgraaf (nl) m
Esperanto: landgrafo
Finnish: maakreivi
French: landgrave (fr) m
German: Landgraf (de) m

Ido: landgravo (io)
Italian: langravio (it) m
Latin: comes prīncipālis m (Mediaeval)
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

Spanish

Noun

landgrave m (plural landgraves)

landgrave

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