viscountess

English

John Hoppner, Portrait of Harriet, Viscountess Duncannon with Her Sons (1787)

Alternative forms

• V (symbol)
• Vis., Visc., Visct (abbreviations)
• Vtesse (contraction)

Etymology

From Middle English viscountes, viscountesse, probably from Middle French viscontesse; equivalent to viscount +‎ -ess. Doublet of vicomtesse.

Noun

viscountess (plural viscountesses)

1. The wife of a viscount.
2. A woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right.

   Before his own elevation to an earldom, Disraeli's wife was created Viscountess Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.

Hyponyms

• vicomtesse (“French viscountess”)

Translations

viscount's wife

• Esperanto: vicgrafino
• Finnish: varakreivitär
• French: vicomtesse (fr) f
• Irish: bíocuntaois f
• Italian: viscontessa f
• Japanese: 子爵 (ja) (shishaku)
• Macedonian: виконте́са f (vikontésa)
• Portuguese: viscondessa f
• Romanian: vicontesă (ro) f
• Spanish: vizcondesa f
• Tagalog: biskondesa
• Welsh: is-iarlles f

a woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right

• Esperanto: vicgrafino
• French: vicomtesse (fr) f
• Irish: bíocuntaois f
• Italian: viscontessa f
• Japanese: 子爵 (ja) (shishaku)
• Manx: lhiass-ven-eearley m
• Polish: wicehrabina (pl) f
• Portuguese: viscondessa f
• Welsh: is-iarlles f