marquess

English

Alternative forms

• marquis (the most common form)
• marquesse (obsolete)

Etymology

See marquis for etymology. Note also that marquess is very unusual in the English language in that it ends in -ess but is a masculine term. The title is granted only to males (the female equivalent is marchioness).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.kwɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.kwɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

marquess (plural marquesses)

1. A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl.
2. (obsolete) A marchioness.

   Anne Boleyn was created w:Marquess of Pembroke in 1532

Related terms

• march
• marchioness
• marquisate
• marquise

Translations

title of nobility

• Arabic: مَرْكِيز m (markīz)
• Armenian: մարկիզ (hy) (markiz)
• Azerbaijani: markiz
• Belarusian: маркі́з m (markíz)
• Breton: markiz (br) m
• Bulgarian: марки́з m (markíz)
• Catalan: marquès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侯爵 (zh) (hóujué)

• Czech: markýz (cs) m
• Danish: markis c
• Dutch: markies (nl) m
• Esperanto: markizo
• Estonian: markii
• Faroese: markgreivi m
• Finnish: markiisi (fi)
• French: marquis (fr) m

  Middle French: marquis m, marchis m

• German: Marquis (de) m, Markgraf (de) m
• Greek: μαρκήσιος (el) m (markísios)
• Hungarian: márki (hu), őrgróf (hu)
• Icelandic: markgreifi m
• Indonesian: tumenggung (id)
• Irish: marcas (ga) m
• Italian: marchese (it) m
• Japanese: 侯爵 (ja) (こうしゃく, kōshaku)
• Khmer: ឧកញ៉ា (km) (okɲaa), ពញា (km) (pɲie)
• Korean: 후작(侯爵) (ko) (hujak)
• Latin: (Late) marchensis m, marchiō m, marchisus m
• Latvian: marķīzs m, markgrāfs m
• Lithuanian: markizas m
• Macedonian: марки́з m (markíz)
• Manchu: ᡥᡝᠣ (heo)
• Maori: mākuihi
• Middle English: marquis, markis
• Norman: martchis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: marki m

  Nynorsk: marki m

• Old English: eorl m
• Ottoman Turkish: ماركی (marki)
• Persian: مارکی (fa) (mârki)
• Polish: markiz (pl) m
• Portuguese: marquês (pt) m
• Romanian: marchiz (ro) m
• Russian: марки́з (ru) m (markíz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маркиз m

  Roman: markiz (sh) m

• Slovak: markíz (sk) m
• Slovene: markiz (sl) m
• Spanish: marqués (es) m
• Swedish: markis (sv) c, markgreve c
• Tagalog: markes
• Thai: มาร์ควิส
• Turkish: marki (tr)
• Ukrainian: маркі́з m (markíz)
• Uzbek: markiz (uz)
• Vietnamese: hầu tước (vi) (侯爵)

Anagrams

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