The Conlanger's Lexipedia by Mark Rosenfelder

The Conlanger's Lexipedia by Mark Rosenfelder

Author:Mark Rosenfelder [Rosenfelder, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yonagu Books
Published: 2013-12-09T05:00:00+00:00


Ranks

The traditional European noble ranks are these:

king—OE cyning

prince—Lt. princeps princip- ‘first’

duke—Lt. dux duc- ‘leader’

marquis—‘frontier (lord)’

count/earl—Lt. comes comit- ‘companion’ / OE eorl

viscount—Fr. ‘under-count’

baron—Germanic ‘warrior, free man’

knight—OE cniht

The ranks should mostly be taken as a rough guide to the size and importance of the estate. (Only rarely did a lower noble actually hold his estate from a higher.)

In Britain prince is restricted to the royal family, but elsewhere it may be a title in itself— e.g. Monaco is still a principality. German distinguishes Prinz ‘monarch’s son’ from Fürst ‘monarch who is not a king’.



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