# conte
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

conte (plural contes)
* 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.

### Anagrams

* cento, oncet, Ecton, Noteć, tecno-, et con, et con., netco, cteno-, etcon, c-note, c note

## Aragonese
### Etymology

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

### Noun

conte m (feminine contesa)
* count (nobility); countess in the feminine sense.

#### Related terms

* vizconte
* condato

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin computus, or deverbal from contar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkon.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkon.te]

### Noun

conte m (plural contes)
* tale; story
    Synonym: rondalla

#### Derived terms

* conte d’indis
* contista

### Further reading

* “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.

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃t/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: compte, comptent, comptes, comte, comtes, content, contes

### Etymology 1

Wikisource $^{fr}$
Inherited from Middle French conte, from Old French conte, compte, derived from the verb conter, compter, or from Latin computus. See compte.

#### Noun

conte m (plural contes)
* tale; story

##### Derived terms

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

##### Descendants

* → Japanese: コント (konto)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

conte
* inflection of conter:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Verb

conte
* inflection of contar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkon.te/
* Rhymes: -onte
* Hyphenation: cón‧te

### Etymology 1

From Latin comitem.

#### Noun

conte m (plural conti, feminine contessa)
* count (rank)
* earl

##### Related terms

* contado
* visconte

##### See also

* duca
* barone
* marchese

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

conte
* plural of conta

### Further reading

* 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

### Anagrams

* cento, tecno-

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkon.te/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkon.te/, [ˈkɔn̪t̪e]

### Noun

conte
* vocative singular of contus

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Noun

conte f
* vagina, also generally sex organ

#### Descendants

* Dutch: kont

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

conte
* Alternative form of cunte

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

conte
* Alternative form of counte (“county”)

## Middle French
### Etymology 1

From Old French conte, compte.

#### Noun

conte f (plural contes)
* story; tale; fable

### Etymology 2

From Old French comte.

#### Noun

conte m (plural contes)
* count (nobleman)

##### Descendants

* French: comte

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* cunte (all senses, Anglo-Norman)

### Etymology 1

First attested circa 980 as compte. Deverbal of conter.

#### Noun

conte oblique singular, m (oblique plural contes, nominative singular contes, nominative plural conte)
* story; tale; fable
* count (record of a number or amount)
** 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:Tant en asamble n'en sai conte tenir.He got together so many that I can't keep count

#### References

* ↑ Etymology and history of “compte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Etymology 2

See comte.

#### Noun

conte oblique singular, m (oblique plural contes, nominative singular cuens, nominative plural conte)
* Alternative form of comte

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkõ.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkõ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkõ.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkõ.tɨ/
* Hyphenation: con‧te

### Verb

conte
* inflection of contar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French comte.

### Noun

conte m (plural conți, feminine equivalent contesă)
* count, earl