In spinning, a numerical system indicating the fineness of yarn. The tex unit (from textile), is the weight mass in grams of one kilometre of yarn, and is gradually replacing older systems such as cotton count and denier.
The male form is followed by the female, and when available, by the territorial circonscriptionEtymological derivations from the Latin comes
| Language | Male title | Female title / Spouse | Territory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | Kont | Konthesë | |
| Catalan | Comte | Comtat | |
| English | Earl conferred by a British monarch; the variation Comtor | Comtesse | Comté |
| Irish | Cuntas (alongside Iarla : Earl) | Cuntaois | |
| Italian | Conte | Contessa | Contea, Contado, Comitato |
| Greek | Κόμης (Komes) | Κόμισσα (Komissa) | Κομητεία (Kometeia) |
| Hebrew | Rozen (רוזן) | Rozenet (רוזנת) | |
| Latin (feudal jargon, not classical) | Comes | Comitissa | Comitatus |
| Maltese | Konti | Kontessa | |
| Monegasque | Conte | Contessa | |
| Portuguese | Conde | Condessa | Condado |
| Polish | Komes | Komesa | Comitates |
| Romanian | Conte | Contesă | Comitat |
| Romansh | Cont | Contessa | |
| Spanish | Conde | Condesa | Condado |
Etymological parallels of the German Graf (some unclear)
| Language | Male title | Female title / Spouse | Territory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belarusian | Граф (Graf) | Графiня (Grafinya) | Графствa (Grafstva) |
| Bulgarian | Граф (Graf) | Графиня (Grafinya) | Графство (Grafstvo) |
| Croatian | Grof | Grofica | Grofovija |
| Czech | Hrabě | Hraběnka | Hrabství |
| Danish | Greve | Grevinde | Grevskab |
| Dutch | Graaf | Gravin | Graafschap |
| Estonian | Krahv | Krahvinna | Krahvkond |
| Latvian | Grāfs | Grāfiene | |
| German | Graf | Gräfin | Grafschaft |
| Finnish | Kreivi | Kreivitär | Kreivikunta |
| Hungarian | Gróf | Grófnő | Grófság |
| Icelandic | Greifi | Greifynja | |
| Lithuanian | Grafas | Grafienė | |
| Luxembourgish | Grof | Gräfin | |
| Macedonian | Grof | Grofina | |
| Polish | Hrabia | Hrabina | Hrabstwo |
| Norwegian | Greve | Grevinne | Grevskap |
| Romanian | Grof (also Conte, see above) | ||
| Russian | Граф (Graf) | Графиня (Grafinya) | Графство (Grafstvo) |
| Serbian | Grof | Grofica | Grofovija |
| Slovak | Gróf | Grófka | Grófstvo |
| Slovene | Grof | Grofica | |
| Swedish | Greve | Grevinna | Grevskap |
| Ukrainian | Ґраф (Graf) | Ґрафiня (Grafinya) |
Compound and related titles
Apart from all these, a few unusual titles have been of comital rank, not necessarily to remain there. after the 16th century all new peerages were always duchies and the medieval countship-peerages had died out, or were held by royal princes
Other French countships of note included those of:
Count of Angoulême, later Dukes Count of Auvergne Count of Bar, later Dukes Count of Blois Count of Boulogne Count of Foix Count of Montpensier Count of PoitiersParts of today's France long within other kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire
Freigraf ('free count') of Burgundy (i.e present Franche-Comté Count of ProvenceThe Holy Roman Empire
See also above for parts of present France
In Germany
See also Graf for various comital and related titles; the far larger west, an original French comté-pairie became part of the French realm Count of Hainaut Count of Namur, later a margraviate Count of Leuven (Louvain) soon became the Duke of Brabant in the present Dutch kingdom of the Netherlands: Count of Holland Count of Zeeland Count of ZutphenIn Switzerland
Count of Neuenburg Count of Toggenburg Count of Kyburg Count of Salis-SoglioIn other continental European countries
In Iberia
As opposed to the plethora of hollow 'gentry' counts, only a few countships ever were important; most territory was firmly within the reconquista kingdoms before counts could become important:
Portugal itself started as a countship, but was promoted to kingdom in Spain, no countships of wider importance, except in the former Spanish march Count of Barcelona - it became integrated in the kingdom of Aragon, which became one of the two main components of the Spanish realm Count of Aragon Count of Castile Count of Galicia Count of Lara Count Cassius, progenitor of the Banu Qasi Count of Urgel the other counts in Catalonia were much smaller and got absorbed into Barcelona/Aragon: Cerdanya, Ampurias, Conflans, Pallars, Rousillon (in present France)Crusader states
Count of Edessa Count of Tripoli (1102-1288)Equivalents
Like other major Western noble titles, Count is sometimes used to render certain titles in non-western languages with their own traditions, even though they are as a rule historically unrelated and thus hard to compare, which are considered 'equivalent' in relative rank.
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