prins
Danish
/prenˀs/
noun
Definitions
- prince son or male-line grandson of a reigning monarch
- prince consort husband of a ruling queen
- prince male ruler or head of a principality
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German prinze borrowed from German Prinz derived from Old French prince derived from Latin prīnceps (first head, first, foremost).
Origin
Latin
prīnceps
Gloss
first head, first, foremost
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
初
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- prince English
- *prince(s), *prince Latin
- princeps Latin
- principalis Latin
- principissa Latin
- principium Latin
- prīnceps Latin
- Märchenprinz German
- Prinz German
- Traumprinz German
- principe Italian
- prince French
- принц Russian
- príncipe Spanish, Castilian
- πρῖγκιψ Ancient Greek
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- prins Swedish
- prins Norwegian Nynorsk
- krone Danish
- kronprins Danish
- princ Czech
- prince Old French
- princ Serbo-Croatian
- prinț Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- prince Middle Dutch
- prince Middle French
- prints Estonian
- prinse Middle Low German
- prinze Middle Low German
- princ Slovak
- princ Slovene
- prince Old Occitan
- prins Western Frisian