landgraf

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English

Noun

landgraf (plural landgrafs)

  1. Alternative form of landgrave
    • 1847, Washington M’Cartney, The Origin and Progress of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: E. H. Butler & Co., pages 58–59:
      Germany had its herzogs and landgrafs, each of whom had his territories, where he ruled, “monarch of all he surveyed.”
    • 1868, “E´SCHWEGÉ”, in Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume IV, London: W. and R. Chambers , page 125:
      The only building of note is the castle, which was long the residence of the landgrafs of Hessen-Rotenberg.
    • 1989, Jole Shackelford, Paracelsianism in Denmark and Norway in the 16th and 17th Centuries, page 264:
      The landgrafs of Hessen-Kassel were sympathetic to Calvinism, which created an intellectual atmosphere that not only tolerated Paracelsianism, not unlike that of Hemmingsen’s Copenhagen, but fostered religio Paracelsica as well.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Landgraf.

Noun

landgraf m (plural landgrafi)

  1. landgrave

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative landgraf landgraful landgrafi landgrafii
genitive-dative landgraf landgrafului landgrafi landgrafilor
vocative landgrafule landgrafilor