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See marquis for etymology. Note also that marquess is very unusual in the English language in that it ends in -ess but is a masculine term. The title is granted only to males (the female equivalent is marchioness).
marquess (plural marquesses)
- A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl.
- (obsolete) A marchioness.
- Anne Boleyn was created w:Marquess of Pembroke in 1532
title of nobility
- Arabic: مَرْكِيز m (markīz)
- Armenian: մարկիզ (hy) (markiz)
- Azerbaijani: markiz
- Belarusian: маркі́з m (markíz)
- Breton: markiz (br) m
- Bulgarian: марки́з m (markíz)
- Catalan: marquès (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 侯爵 (zh) (hóujué)
- Czech: markýz (cs) m
- Danish: markis c
- Dutch: markies (nl) m
- Esperanto: markizo
- Estonian: markii
- Faroese: markgreivi m
- Finnish: markiisi (fi)
- French: marquis (fr) m
- Middle French: marquis m, marchis m
- German: Marquis (de) m, Markgraf (de) m
- Greek: μαρκήσιος (el) m (markísios)
- Hungarian: márki (hu), őrgróf (hu)
- Icelandic: markgreifi m
- Indonesian: tumenggung (id)
- Irish: marcas (ga) m
- Italian: marchese (it) m
- Japanese: 侯爵 (ja) (こうしゃく, kōshaku)
- Khmer: ឧកញ៉ា (km) (okɲaa), ពញា (km) (pɲie)
- Korean: 후작(侯爵) (ko) (hujak)
- Latin: (Late) marchensis m, marchiō m, marchisus m
- Latvian: marķīzs m, markgrāfs m
- Lithuanian: markizas m
- Macedonian: марки́з m (markíz)
- Manchu: ᡥᡝᠣ (heo)
- Maori: mākuihi
- Middle English: marquis, markis
- Norman: martchis m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: marki m
- Nynorsk: marki m
- Old English: eorl m
- Ottoman Turkish: ماركی (marki)
- Persian: مارکی (fa) (mârki)
- Polish: markiz (pl) m
- Portuguese: marquês (pt) m
- Romanian: marchiz (ro) m
- Russian: марки́з (ru) m (markíz)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: маркиз m
- Roman: markiz (sh) m
- Slovak: markíz (sk) m
- Slovene: markiz (sl) m
- Spanish: marqués (es) m
- Swedish: markis (sv) c, markgreve c
- Tagalog: markes
- Thai: มาร์ควิส
- Turkish: marki (tr)
- Ukrainian: маркі́з m (markíz)
- Uzbek: markiz (uz)
- Vietnamese: hầu tước (vi) (侯爵)
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