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English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French prince, from Latin pr?nceps (“first head”), from pr?mus (“first”) + capi? (“seize, take”). Doublet of princeps.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?ns, IPA^(key): /p??ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns
• Homophone: prints (/p??nts/) (in some accents)

Noun

prince (plural princes)

1. (now archaic or historical) A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch. [from 13th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, 2010, p.600:

     By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, 2010, p.411:

     If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.

2. (obsolete) A female monarch.

   • Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.

3. Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. [from 13th c.]

4. The (male) ruler or head of a principality. [from 14th c.]
   • 2011, Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 26 June:

     He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.

5. A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch. [from 14th c.]
6. A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.

   Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.

   • 2011, Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian, 16 October:

     Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.

7. The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
8. A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
9. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Rohana.

Usage notes

• The female equivalent is princess.
• A prince is usually addressed as "Your Highness". A son of a king is "His Royal Highness"; a son of an emperor is "His Imperial Highness". A sovereign prince may have a style such as "His Serene Highness".

Synonyms

• (mushroom): Agaricus augustus

Hypernyms

• ruler

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Agaricus augustus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Agaricus augustus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• prince in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prince in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• pincer

French

Etymology

From Middle French prince, from Old French prince, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin pr?nceps, pr?ncipem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???s/

Noun

prince m (plural princes)

1. prince

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Turkish: prens

Further reading

• “prince” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pincer

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French prince.

Noun

prince m (plural princes)

1. prince

Descendants

• French: prince

Old French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin pr?ncipem, accusative singular of pr?nceps.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?prin.t?s?/

Noun

prince m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)

1. prince

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pr?nceps, possibly a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?intse/

Noun

prince m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)

1. prince
   • c. 1235, anonymous, Vida of Jaufre Rudel:

     Jaufres Rudels de Blaia si fo mout gentils hom, e fo princes de Blaia.

     Jaufre Rudel of Blaye was a most noble man, and was the Lord of Blaye.

Walloon

Noun

prince m (plural princes, feminine princesse, feminine plural princesses)

1. prince

English

Alternative forms

• athil, athill
• aethel, æthel
• ethel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ??l/, /?e???l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English athel, ethel, hathel (“noble; nobleman, hero”), from Old English æþele (“noble”), from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz, *aþaljaz, *aþiluz (“noble, of noble birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”).

Akin to Saterland Frisian eedel, West Frisian eal, Dutch edel, German edel. Middle English form hathel due to conflation with Old English hæleþ (“hero”). See heleth.

Adjective

athel (comparative more athel, superlative most athel)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Noble; illustrious

Derived terms

• atheldom
• atheling

Noun

athel (plural athels)

1. (obsolete) A chief or lord.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A prince or noble.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ?????? (?a?al).

Noun

athel (plural athels)

1. A kind of tamarisk native to northern Africa and the Middle East, Tamarix aphylla, planted widely elsewhere as a shade tree and a windbreak due to its tolerance of heat and of alkaline soils, but tending to become invasive outside of its native range.
2. A discrimination of originality and nobility ( ??????)

Anagrams

• Leath, ethal, hatel, lathe