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English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman, from Old French prince, from Latin prīnceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Doublet of princeps. Displaced native Old English æþeling.
Pronunciation
Noun
prince (plural princes)
- (now archaic or historical) A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pittied than envied them.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 600:By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.
2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 411:If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.
- (obsolete) A female monarch.
1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, , London: G E for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
- Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
He is a prince among men.
- The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
2011 June 26, Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian:He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
- A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.
- Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
2011 October 16, Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian:Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.
- A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
- The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Rohana.
Usage notes
- The female equivalent is princess.
- A prince is usually addressed as "Your Highness". A son of a king is "His Royal Highness"; a son of an emperor is "His Imperial Highness". A sovereign prince may have a style such as "His Serene Highness".
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Translations
male ruler or head of a principality
- Adyghe: пщы (pśə)
- Afrikaans: prins (af)
- Albanian: pringj m
- Arabic: أَمِير (ar) m (ʔamīr)
- Moroccan Arabic: مير (mir) (old)
- Armenian: իշխան (hy) (išxan)
- Assamese: কোঁৱৰ (kü̃or)
- Asturian: príncipe (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: şahzadə, əmir
- Bavarian: Fiarst, Fiascht
- Belarusian: князь m (knjazʹ), прынц m (prync)
- Bengali: রাজকুমার (bn) (rajkumar), রাজপুত্র (bn) (rajputro), শাহজাদা (bn) (śahjada), আমীরজাদা (amirjada)
- Breton: priñs (br) m
- Bulgarian: княз (bg) m (knjaz), принц (bg) m (princ)
- Burmese: မင်းသား (my) (mang:sa:)
- Catalan: príncep (ca) m
- Chagatai: شهزاده
- Chechen: э̄ла (eela)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 亲王 (zh) (qīnwáng) (of higher rank or European); 國王/国王 (zh) (guówáng) (of higher rank historically); 郡王 (zh) (jùnwáng) (of lower rank); 王 (zh) (wáng); 王爵 (zh) (wángjué); 王爷 (zh) (huángzǐ) (honorific or colloquial); 王子 (zh) (wángzi) (colloquial)
- Cornish: pennsevik m
- Czech: kníže (cs) m
- Danish: prins (da) c, fyrste c
- Dutch: prins (nl)
- Egyptian: (jnpw)
- Erzya: каназор (kanazor)
- Esperanto: princo
- Estonian: vürst
- Faroese: prinsur m, fúrsti m
- Finnish: ruhtinas (fi)
- French: prince (fr) m
- Galician: príncipe (gl) m
- Georgian: პრინცი (ṗrinci), უფლისწული (uplisc̣uli)
- German: Fürst (de) m
- Greek: πρίγκιπας (el) m (prígkipas), βασιλόπουλο (el) n (vasilópoulo)
- Ancient: πρῖγκιψ m (prînkips), βασιλείδης m (basileídēs)
- Hebrew: נָסִיךְ (he) m (nasik)
- Hindi: शहज़ादा m (śahzādā), राजकुमार (hi) m (rājkumār)
- Hungarian: fejedelem (hu), uralkodó (hu)
- Icelandic: prins (is) m, fursti m
- Indonesian: pangeran (id), putera (id)
- Ingush: аьла (äla)
- Irish: flaith m, prionsa m
- Italian: principe (it)
- Japanese: 公 (ja) (こう, kō), (around Germany) 候 (ja) (こう, kō), (around France) 大公 (ja) (たいこう, taikō), 王子 (ja) (おうじ, ōji), 皇子 (ja) (こうし, kōshi)
- Kabardian: пщы (kbd) (pśə)
- Kapampangan: lakan, datu, pirinsipi
- Kazakh: ханзада (xanzada), шаһзада (kk) (şahzada)
- Khmer: ព្រះអង្គម្ចាស់ (km) (prĕəh ʼɑng mcah)
- Korean: 대공(大公) (ko) (daegong), 대군(大君) (ko) (daegun)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: şahzade (ku), mîr (ku) m
- Kyrgyz: канзаада (ky) (kanzaada), принц (prints)
- Lao: ເຈົ້າຊາຍ (chao sāi)
- Latin: regulus, prīnceps (la) m
- Latvian: princis m
- Lithuanian: princas m
- Lü: ᦈᧁᦌᦻ (ṫsawsaay)
- Luxembourgish: Prënz m
- Macedonian: кнез m (knez), принц m (princ)
- Malay: putera (ms)
- Manchu: ᠠᡤᡝ (age)
- Manx: prinse m, flah m
- Maori: piriniha
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: ноён (mn) (nojon)
- Nahuatl: pilli (nah)
- Norman: prînce m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fyrste (no) m, fyrst (no) (as a title)
- Nynorsk: fyrste m, fyrst (as a title)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: кънѧзь m (kŭnęzĭ), кънѧѕь (kŭnędzĭ)
- Glagolitic: ⰽⱏⱀⱔⰸⱐ m (kŭnęzĭ), ⰽⱏⱀⱔⰷⱐ m (kŭnędzĭ)
- Old East Slavic: кънѧзь m (kŭnęzĭ), кнѧзь m (knęzĭ)
- Old English: æþeling m
- Old Occitan: prince m
- Ottoman Turkish: امیر (emir), خان (han)
- Parthian: 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫛𐫇𐫍𐫡 (wispuhr)
- Parthian: 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫛𐫇𐫍𐫡 (wispuhr)
- Pashto: شاهزاده m (šāhzādá), شازاده m (šāzãdá), اميرزاده m (amirzādá), شاهزوى m (šāhzóy)
- Persian: شاهزاده (fa) (šâhzâde), امیر (fa) (amir), شهریار (fa) (šahryâr)
- Polish: książę (pl) m, kniaź (pl) m (Russian prince)
- Portuguese: príncipe (pt)
- Quechua: awki
- Romanian: prinț (ro) m
- Russian: князь (ru) m (knjazʹ), принц (ru) m (princ)
- Samoan: aloalii, purinise
- Scottish Gaelic: prionnsa m, flath m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра́љевић m, ца̏ревић m, при̏нц m
- Roman: králjević m, cȁrević m, prȉnc (sh) m
- Slovak: knieža m
- Slovene: knez (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wjerch m
- Spanish: príncipe (es), conde (es) m
- Swahili: mkuu (sw)
- Swedish: furste (sv) c
- Tagalog: prinsipe, lakan (tl)
- Tajik: шоҳзода (tg) (šohzoda), амир (amir)
- Tatar: шаһзадә (tt) (şahzadä)
- Thai: เจ้าชาย (th) (jâao-chaai), เจ้า (th) (jâao)
- Tibetan: རྒྱལ་སྲས (rgyal sras), རྒྱལ་བུ (rgyal bu)
- Tongan: pilinisi
- Turkish: prens (tr), şehzade (tr)
- Turkmen: şazada, knýaz
- Ukrainian: князь m (knjazʹ), принц m (prync)
- Urdu: شہزادہ m (śahzādā), راجکمار m (rājkumār)
- Uyghur: شاھزادە (ug) (shahzade)
- Uzbek: shahzoda (uz), amir (uz)
- Vietnamese: hoàng tử (vi), vương tử (vi)
- Volapük: (♂♀) plin (vo), (♂) hiplin
- Walloon: prince (wa) m
- Welsh: tywysog (cy) m
- Yiddish: פּרינץ m (prints)
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son or male-line grandson of a reigning monarch
- Afrikaans: prins (af)
- Albanian: princ (sq) m
- Arabic: أَمِير (ar) m (ʔamīr)
- Armenian: արքայազն (hy) (arkʻayazn)
- Assamese: কোঁৱৰ (kü̃or)
- Asturian: príncipe (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: şahzadə
- Belarusian: прынц m (prync), царэ́віч m (carévič) (tsar's son), карале́віч m (karaljévič) (king's son)
- Bengali: রাজকুমার (bn) (rajkumar), রাজপুত্র (bn) (rajputro), যুবরাজ (bn) (juboraj), শাহজাদা (bn) (śahjada), আমীরজাদা (amirjada)
- Breton: priñs (br) m
- Bulgarian: принц (bg) f (princ)
- Burmese: မင်းသား (my) (mang:sa:)
- Catalan: príncep (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 王子 (zh) (wángzǐ) (for son of a king); 皇子 (zh) (huángzǐ) (for son of an emperor)
- Cornish: pennsevik m
- Czech: princ (cs) m
- Danish: prins (da) c
- Dutch: prins (nl) m
- Erzya: инязорцёра (ińazorćora)
- Esperanto: reĝido
- Estonian: prints (et)
- Faroese: prinsur m
- Finnish: prinssi (fi)
- French: prince (fr) m
- Galician: príncipe (gl) m
- Georgian: პრინცი (ṗrinci)
- German: Prinz (de) m, Königssohn (de) m, Königsenkel m
- Greek: πρίγκιπας (el) m (prígkipas)
- Ancient: αἰσυμνητήρ m (aisumnētḗr)
- Hawaiian: kamāliʻi kāne
- Hebrew: נָסִיךְ (he) m (nasik), בֶּן מֶלֶךְ (he) m (ben mélech)
- Hindi: राजकुमार (hi) m (rājkumār)
- Hungarian: herceg (hu), királyfi (hu)
- Icelandic: prins (is) m
- Indonesian: pangeran (id)
- Irish: prionsa m, mac rí m, rídhamhna m
- Italian: principe (it) m
- Japanese: 王子 (ja) (おうじ, ōji)
- Javanese: ꦥꦔꦺꦫꦤ꧀ (jv) (pangéran)
- Kapampangan: lakan, datu, pirinsipi
- Kazakh: ханзада (xanzada)
- Khmer: ព្រះអង្គម្ចាស់ (km) (prĕəh ʼɑng mcah), អ្នកអង្គម្ចាស់ (km) (nĕək ʼɑng mcah) (male-line grandson of reigning monarch)
- Korean: 왕자(王子) (ko) (wangja)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: میر (mîr)
- Kyrgyz: канзада (kanzada), канзаада (ky) (kanzaada), падышазада (padışazada)
- Latin: prīnceps (la) m, regulus
- Latvian: princis m
- Lithuanian: princas m
- Luxembourgish: Prënz m
- Macedonian: принц m (princ)
- Malay: putera (ms), pengiran (formal, in Brunei), pangeran
- Malayalam: രാജകുമാരന് m (rājakumāraṉ)
- Manx: prinse m
- Maori: piriniha
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хан хүү (xan xüü), агь (mn) (agʹ)
- Norman: prînce m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: prins m
- Nynorsk: prins m
- Old English: æþeling m
- Ottoman Turkish: شاهزاده (şahzade)
- Pashto: شهزاده m (šahzādá)
- Persian: شاهزاده (fa) (šâhzâde)
- Plautdietsch: Prins m
- Polish: książę (pl) m
- Portuguese: príncipe (pt) m
- Romanian: prinț (ro)
- Russian: принц (ru) m (princ), царе́вич (ru) m (carévič) (tsar's son), короле́вич (ru) m (korolévič) (king's son)
- Samoan: purinise
- Sanskrit: कुमार (sa) m (kumāra)
- Scottish Gaelic: prionnsa m, flath m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра́љевић m, ца̏ревић m, при̏нц m
- Roman: králjević m, cȁrević m, prȉnc (sh) m
- Slovak: princ m
- Slovene: princ (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: princ m
- Spanish: príncipe (es) m (firstborn), infante (es) m
- Sundanese: ᮕᮍᮦᮛᮔ᮪ (pangéran)
- Swedish: prins (sv) c
- Tagalog: lakan (tl), prinsipe
- Tajik: шоҳзода (tg) (šohzoda), подшоҳзода (podšohzoda)
- Telugu: యువరాజు (te) (yuvarāju)
- Tocharian B: mäñcuṣke
- Tongan: pilinisi
- Turkish: prens (tr), şehzade (tr), beyrek
- Turkmen: knýaz, şazada
- Ukrainian: принц m (prync), царе́вич (uk) m (carévyč) (tsar's son), короле́вич (uk) m (korolévyč) (king's son)
- Urdu: شہزادہ m (śahzādā)
- Uyghur: شاھزادە (ug) (shahzade)
- Uzbek: shahzoda (uz)
- Vietnamese: vương tử (vi), hoàng tử (vi)
- Volapük: leson (vo)
- Welsh: tywysog (cy) m
- Yiddish: פּרינץ m (prints), בן־מלך m (ben-meylekh)
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(figuratively) great person
Translations to be checked
Verb
prince (third-person singular simple present princes, present participle princing, simple past and past participle princed)
- (intransitive, rare, often followed by dummy subject it) To behave or act like a prince.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 382, column 1:The Roofes of Palaces, and Nature prompts them / In ſimple and lowe things, to Prince it, much / Beyond the tricke of others.
- (transitive, rare) To transform (someone) into a prince.
2005 March 30, abe slaney, “Question re John Lennon's Death”, in rec.music.beatles (Usenet):All I could remember is the chorus, and something about pumpkins turning into princesses (???!) and frogs turning into princes. I figured she meant the frog was John before she princed him.
References
Further reading
- Agaricus augustus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Agaricus sect. Arvenses on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Agaricus augustus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “prince”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prince”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French prince, from Old French prince, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin prīnceps.
Pronunciation
Noun
prince m (plural princes)
- prince
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French prince.
Pronunciation
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Noun
prince m (plural princes)
- prince
Descendants
Old French
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin prīnceps.
Pronunciation
- (classical) IPA(key): /ˈpɾint͡sə/
- (late) IPA(key): /ˈpɾinsə/
Noun
prince oblique singular, m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)
- prince
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin prīnceps, possibly a borrowing.
Pronunciation
Noun
prince m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)
- prince
c. 1235, anonymous author, Vida of Jaufre Rudel:Jaufres Rudels de Blaia si fo mout gentils hom, e fo princes de Blaia.
Jaufre Rudel of Blaye was a most noble man, and was the Lord of Blaye.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Walloon
Pronunciation
Noun
prince m (plural princes, feminine princesse, feminine plural princesses)
- prince