baronessa

See also: baronessą

English

Etymology

From Italian baronessa.

Noun

baronessa (plural baronessas)

1. An Italian baroness.
   • 1979, Meryle Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 391:

     Professor Hartt recalled that, at one of what Berenson liked to call his Sunday afternoon “tea fights,” he was surrounded by contessas, baronessas, and principessas in true Don Giovanni style.

   • 1998, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 243:

     By five o’clock, contessas, baronessas, ministers, ambassadors, fashionistas, and local goddesses of Cinecittà began streaming across the huge piazza in front of the Farnese.

   • 2014, Marco Malvaldi, translated by Howard Curtis, The Art of Killing Well, MacLehose Press, Quercus Editions Ltd, →ISBN:

     “Oh, these Italian mothers,” replied Ciceri distractedly. “They’re all the same, baronessas or not. Their first concern is that their son eats enough for three people. Everything else is of lesser importance.”

Catalan

Etymology

From baró (“baron”) +‎ -essa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.ɾuˈnɛ.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bə.ɾoˈnə.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ba.ɾoˈne.sa]
• Rhymes: -ɛsa
• Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧nes‧sa

Noun

baronessa f (plural baronesses, masculine baró)

1. baroness

Italian

Etymology

From barone +‎ -essa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.roˈnes.sa/
• Rhymes: -essa
• Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧nés‧sa

Noun

baronessa f (plural baronesse, masculine barone)

1. baroness

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• baronessen

Noun

baronessa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of baronesse

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

baronessa f

1. definite singular of baronesse

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English baroness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.rɔˈnɛs.sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛssa
• Syllabification: ba‧ro‧nes‧sa

Noun

baronessa f (male equivalent baron)

1. (historical) female equivalent of baron (“baroness”) (the female ruler of a barony)

Declension

Declension of baronessa

	singular	plural
nominative	baronessa	baronessy
genitive	baronessy	baroness
dative	baronessie	baronessom
accusative	baronessę	baronessy
instrumental	baronessą	baronessami
locative	baronessie	baronessach
vocative	baronesso	baronessy

Related terms

adjectives

• baronowski
• baroński

 

nouns

• baronat
• baronek
• baronet
• baronia
• baronostwo
• baronowa
• baronówna
• baroństwo

 

Further reading

• baronessa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• baronessa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

baronessa c

1. a baroness

Declension

Declension of baronessa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	baronessa	baronessas
	definite	baronessan	baronessans
plural	indefinite	baronessor	baronessors
	definite	baronessorna	baronessornas

Related terms

• baron

Further reading

• baronessa in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker