comtessa

== Catalan == === Etymology === From Latin comitissa. By surface analysis, comte (“count”) +‎ -essa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [kumˈte̞.sə] IPA(key): (Balearic) [komˈtə.sə] IPA(key): (Central) [kumˈtɛ.sə] IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [komˈte.sa] Rhymes: -ɛsa Hyphenation: com‧tes‧sa === Noun === comtessa f (plural comtesses, masculine comte, masculine plural comtes) countess