conte

From Italian conte. Doublet of comes, comte, and count.

conte (plural contes)

1. An Italian count.

   Coordinate term: contessa

   • 1895 July 13, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Long Vacation”, in The Churchman: An Illustrated Weekly News-Magazine, volume LXXII, number 2 (whole 2634), New York, N.Y.: M. H. Mallory & Co., chapter XXVIII (Rocca Marina), page 52 (24), column 3:

     So she led the way through a marble hall, pillared in different colors, rich and rare, with portraits of ancient contes and contessas on the walls, up a magnificent stone stair with a carved balustrade, to a suite indeed, where, at the entrance, Sibby was found very happy at her welcome from Mrs. Mount, who was equally glad to receive a countrywoman.

   • 1986, Heather Graham Pozzessere, The Di Medici Bride, Silhouette Intimate Moments, →ISBN, page 130:

     “Aspirin. It will help you to sleep tonight if you have aches and pains, or cold clammy dreams about dead contes and contessas,” he teased.

   • 2006, Mark Lamster, Spalding’s World Tour: The Epic Adventure That Took Baseball Around the Globe—and Made It America’s Game, PublicAffairs™, →ISBN:

     The announcement of the game had put Florentine society “in a flurry,” and two thousand spectators—including enough contes and contessas to fill half the palaces of Florence—made the trip beyond the city limits to view the match.

From Latin comitem (the 'o' being stressed and the 'i' disappearing), accusative of comes (“companion”). Ultimately cognate to English count (nobility).

conte m (feminine contesa)

1. count (nobility); countess in the feminine sense.

• vizconte
• condato

Inherited from Latin computus, or deverbal from contar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkon.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkon.te]

conte m (plural contes)

1. tale; story

   Synonym: rondalla

• conte d’indis
• contista

• “conte” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “conte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “conte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “conte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃t/

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• Homophones: compte, comptent, comptes, comte, comtes, content, contes

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Inherited from Middle French conte, from Old French conte, compte, derived from the verb conter, compter, or from Latin computus. See compte.

conte m (plural contes)

1. tale; story

• conte de bonne femme
• conte de fées (“fairy-tale”)
• conte moral

• → Japanese: コント (konto)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

conte

1. inflection of conter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “conte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

conte

1. inflection of contar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkon.te/
• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: cón‧te

From Latin comitem.

conte m (plural conti, feminine contessa)

1. count (rank)
2. earl

• contado
• visconte

• duca
• barone
• marchese

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

conte

1. plural of conta

• conte in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• conte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• conte in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• conte in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• conte in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• conte in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• cento, tecno-

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.te/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.te/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪e]

conte

1. vocative singular of contus

From Old Dutch *kunta (“vagina”), from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ.

conte f

1. vagina, also generally sex organ

• Dutch: kont

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “conte”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

conte

1. Alternative form of cunte

From Old French conte, compte.

conte f (plural contes)

1. story; tale; fable

From Old French comte.

conte m (plural contes)

1. count (nobleman)

• French: comte

• cunte (all senses, Anglo-Norman)

First attested circa 980 as compte. Deverbal of conter.[1]

conte oblique singular, m (oblique plural contes, nominative singular contes, nominative plural conte)

1. story; tale; fable
2. count (record of a number or amount)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     Tant en asamble n'en sai conte tenir.

     He got together so many that I can't keep count

See comte.

conte oblique singular, m (oblique plural contes, nominative singular cuens, nominative plural conte)

1. Alternative form of comte

• Hyphenation: con‧te

conte

1. inflection of contar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French comte.

conte m (plural conți, feminine equivalent contesă)

1. count, earl