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A title for nobility who answered to the king but bossed everyone else.
means To add things up one by one to find a total, or a number reached by doing so — and also a noble title ranking below a duke.
from Two separate words wearing the same coat. The counting sense comes from Latin 'computare,' to reckon up (the same root that gives us 'compute'), arriving through Old French 'conter.' The nobleman comes from Latin 'comes,' meaning 'companion' — specifically a companion of the emperor — which softened through French into 'conte.' So a count was originally just someone who got to hang around the boss; the math meaning rode in on a different horse entirely and they happened to spell the same.
- latin root
- From comes, meaning companion of the emperor
- female form
- A countess outranks most people you know
- county link
- Counties were literally lands a count governed
- famous fictional
- Dracula chose count, not king, for a reason
- number sense
- Same word means tally, totally unrelated origin
sesame street — children's educational show that has been teaching counting since 1969
the count von count — muppet character obsessed with counting on sesame street since 1972
counting crows — american rock band formed in 1991, named from a nursery rhyme