baronessa

From Italian baronessa.

baronessa (plural baronessas)

1. An Italian baroness.
   • 1979, Meryle Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 391:

     Professor Hartt recalled that, at one of what Berenson liked to call his Sunday afternoon “tea fights,” he was surrounded by contessas, baronessas, and principessas in true Don Giovanni style.

   • 1998, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 243:

     By five o’clock, contessas, baronessas, ministers, ambassadors, fashionistas, and local goddesses of Cinecittà began streaming across the huge piazza in front of the Farnese.

   • 2014, Marco Malvaldi, translated by Howard Curtis, The Art of Killing Well, MacLehose Press, Quercus Editions Ltd, →ISBN:

     “Oh, these Italian mothers,” replied Ciceri distractedly. “They’re all the same, baronessas or not. Their first concern is that their son eats enough for three people. Everything else is of lesser importance.”

From baró (“baron”) +‎ -essa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.ɾuˈnɛ.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bə.ɾoˈnə.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ba.ɾoˈne.sa]
• Rhymes: -ɛsa
• Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧nes‧sa

baronessa f (plural baronesses, masculine baró)

1. baroness

From barone +‎ -essa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ba.roˈnes.sa/
• Rhymes: -essa
• Hyphenation: ba‧ro‧nés‧sa

baronessa f (plural baronesse, masculine barone)

1. baroness

• baronessen

baronessa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of baronesse

baronessa f

1. definite singular of baronesse

Borrowed from English baroness.

• IPA^(key): /ba.rɔˈnɛs.sa/

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• Rhymes: -ɛssa
• Syllabification: ba‧ro‧nes‧sa

baronessa f (male equivalent baron)

1. (historical) female equivalent of baron (“baroness”) (the female ruler of a barony)

• baronessa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• baronessa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

baronessa c

1. a baroness

• baron

• baronessa in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker