English prince definition
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. [from 13th c.]
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821: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, 2010, p.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, 2010, p.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.
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- Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
- Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. [from 13th c.]
He is a prince among men.
- The (male) ruler or head of a principality. [from 14th c.]
- 2011, Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian, 26 June:
- 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. [from 14th c.]
- 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, Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian, 16 October:
- 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.
- The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
- A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
- 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
- Afrikaans: prins (af)
- Albanian: pringj m
- Arabic: أَمِير (ar) m (ʾamīr)
- Moroccan Arabic: مير (mir) (old)
- Armenian: իշխան (hy) (išxan)
- Assamese: কোঁৱৰ (kü̃or)
- Asturian: príncipe m
- Azerbaijani: şahzadə, əmir
- Bavarian: Fiarst, Fiascht
- Belarusian: князь m (knjazʹ), прынц m (prync)
- Bengali: শাহজাদা (śahôzada), আমীরজাদা (amīrzada), রাজকুমার (bn) (rajkumar), রাজপুত্র (bn) (rajputrô)
- Breton: priñs (br) m
- Bulgarian: княз (bg) m (knjaz), принц m (princ)
- Burmese: မင်းသား (my) (mang:sa:)
- Catalan: príncep (ca) m
- Chagatai: شهزاده
- Chechen: э̄ла (ēla)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 亲王 (zh) (qīnwáng) (of higher rank or European); 國王 (zh), 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)
- Kazakh: ханзада (xanzada), шаһзада (kk) (şahzada)
- Khmer: ព្រះអង្គម្ចាស់ (km) (prĕəh ʼɑng mcah)
- Korean: 왕자(王子) (ko) (wangja)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: şahzade (ku)
- Kyrgyz: канзаада (ky) (qanzaada), принц (prints)
- Lao: ເຈົ້າຊາຍ (chao sāi)
- Latin: regulus, prīnceps (la) m
- Latvian: princis m
- Lithuanian: princas m
- Luxembourgish: Prënz m
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- Lü: ᦈᧁᦌᦻ (ṫsawsaay)
- Macedonian: кнез m (knez), принц m (princ)
- Malay: putera (ms)
- Manx: prinse m, flah m
- Manchu: ᠠᡤᡝ (age)
- Maori: piriniha
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: ноён (mn) (noyon)
- 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 (sh) m, cȁrević (sh) 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
- 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 (ʾamīr)
- Armenian: արքայազն (hy) (arkʿayazn)
- Assamese: কোঁৱৰ (kü̃or)
- Asturian: príncipe m
- Azerbaijani: şahzadə
- Belarusian: прынц m (prync), царэ́віч m (carévič) (tsar's son), карале́віч m (karaljévič) (king's son)
- Bengali: শাহজাদা (śahôzada), আমীরজাদা (amīrzada), রাজকুমার (bn) (rajkumar), রাজপুত্র (bn) (rajputrô)
- Breton: priñs (br) m
- Bulgarian: принц 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 (injazorcjora)
- 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
- Japanese: 王子 (ja) (おうじ, ōji)
- Javanese: ꦥꦔꦺꦫꦤ꧀ (jv) (pangéran)
- 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 (ku) (mîr)
- Kyrgyz: канзада (qanzada), канзаада (ky) (qanzaada), падышазада (padışazada)
- Latin: prīnceps (la) m, regulus
- Latvian: princis m
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- Lithuanian: princas m
- Luxembourgish: Prënz m
- Macedonian: принц m (princ)
- Malay: putera (ms), pengiran (formal, in Brunei), pangeran
- Malayalam: രാജകുമാരന് m (rājakumāran)
- Manx: prinse m
- Maori: piriniha
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хан хүү (han hüü), агь (mn) (agĭ)
- 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 (sh) m, cȁrević (sh) 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, 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
Agaricus augustus
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- Hungarian: óriás csiperke (hu)
- Swedish: kungschampinjon c
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French prince definition
Etymology
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 prince definition
Etymology
From Old French prince.
Pronunciation
Noun
prince m (plural princes)
- prince
Descendants
Old French prince definition
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin prīnceps.
Pronunciation
Noun
prince m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)
- prince
Old Occitan prince definition
Etymology
From Latin prīnceps, possibly a borrowing.
Pronunciation
Noun
prince m (oblique plural princes, nominative singular princes, nominative plural prince)
- prince
- c. 1235, anonymous, 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.
Walloon prince definition
Noun
prince m (plural princes, feminine princesse, feminine plural princesses)
- prince