Etymograph

English

conte

Conte comes from Italian conte ‘count (rank)’, and goes back to Latin comes.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomesas comitem‘a count, an earl’
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentconte‘count (rank)’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1895same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcomesas comitem‘a count, an earl’
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentconte‘count (rank)’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1895same form

Earliest quotation: 1895, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Long Vacation: “So she led the way through a marble hall,…”

Linked words

through Latin comes ‘a count, an earl’

comes, county, count, concomitant, comitatus, 7 more

Today it means

noun An Italian count.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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