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prince
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)
- (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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, 2010, p.600:
- (obsolete) A female monarch.
- Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
- Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. [from 13th c.]
- 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.
- 2011, Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 26 June:
- 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.]
- 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.
- The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
- A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- c. 1235, anonymous, Vida of Jaufre Rudel:
Walloon
Noun
prince m (plural princes, feminine princesse, feminine plural princesses)
- prince
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elector
English
Etymology
From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ?ligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). ?ligere is the present active infinitive of ?lig? (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + leg? (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *le?- (“to collect, gather”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l?kt?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??l?kt?/
- Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
- Hyphenation: elect?or
Noun
elector (plural electors)
- (politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
- A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
- (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
Alternative forms
- electour (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- elect
- election
Translations
References
Further reading
- prince-elector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- elector (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- corelet, electro, electro-
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin elector.
Noun
elector m (plural electors, feminine electora)
- voter, elector
Derived terms
- electoral
- electorat
Further reading
- “elector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “elector” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “elector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “elector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Etymology
From ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”) +? -tor (agentive suffix) from ex- (“out”) +? leg? (“to gather, collect”) from Proto-Italic *leg?, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-. Compare Ancient Greek ?????? (eklég?).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /e??le?k.tor/, [e????e?kt??r]
- (Vulgar) IPA(key): /e?le?k.tor/, [e?le?ktor]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e?lek.tor/, [??l?kt??r]
Noun
?l?ctor m (genitive ?l?ct?ris, feminine ?l?ctr?x); third declension
- chooser, selector
- voter, elector
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- elector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- elector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 580
- elector in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2378
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector”) (genitive singular ?l?ct?ris), from Latin ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”), ex- +? leg? from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), from Proto-Indo-European *le?-.
Noun
elector m (plural electores, feminine electora, feminine plural electoras)
- voter, elector
- Synonym: votante
Derived terms
- electorado
- electoral
Further reading
- “elector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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