count

Meanings

Verb

• To recite numbers in sequence.
• To determine the number (of objects in a group).
• To be of significance; to matter.
• To consider something an example of something.
• To take account or note (of).
• To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count

Noun

• The male ruler of a county.
• A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
• Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia (genus). Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

Related

Similar words

• earl
• comte
• conte
• graf

Origin

• From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter ("add up; tell a story"), from Latin computō ("I compute"). Displaced native Middle English tellen ("to count") (from Old English tellan) and Middle English rimen ("to count, enumerate") (from Old English rīman). compute.
• From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte ("count"), from Latin comes ("companion") (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". comes, and comte.