Noun: contea
Gender: f
Hyphenation: con‧tè‧a
| Singular f | contea |
| Plural f | contee |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like contea
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French conté, from Latin comitātus. Doublet of contado. The modern sense of an administrative division is a semantic loan from English county. See: Latin Nouns '
comitātus'.
Verbs referencing "contea"
English Nouns
county.
Translations