Count

:This page is about the Western style nobility; for the baseball term, see count (baseball).

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A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is still a "countess" (for lack of an Anglo-Saxon term). The word count comes from French comte, itself from Latin comes— in its accusative comitem— meaning "companion, bound (by oath)", and later "bound to the emperor, delegate of the emperor".

Related Topics:
Nobleman - British - Earl - French - Latin - Comes - Accusative

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