prince – English noun declension

English noun forms of prince

Noun: prince
Singularprince
Pluralprinces

Sample Sentences

  • Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pittied than envied them. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
  • By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed. [2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 600:]
  • If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment. [2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 411:]
  • Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex. [1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:]
  • He is a prince among men.
  • In some respects the intellectual is indeed closer to the philosopher than to any specialist, and the philosopher is in more than one sense a sort of prince among the intellectuals. [1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 423:]
  • He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco. [2011 June 26, Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian:]
  • Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge. [2011 October 16, Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English prince, from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin prīnceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Cognate with Old English fruma (“prince, ruler”). Doublet of princeps and principe.
2. Displaced native Middle English atheling, from Old English æþeling; Middle English kinebarn, from Old English cynebearn; Middle English alder, from Old English ealdor; and Middle English drighten, from Old English dryhten. See: Middle English Nouns 'prince', Latin Nouns 'prīnceps', Old English Nouns 'fruma'.

Verbs referencing "prince"

Portuguese Nouns princeso.