Re: "Roumant", or maybe Narbonósc. Part VII

Christophe wrote:


> I got the idea of this use of comsort from French, which has a very special
> adjective "consort", used nearly only in one case: to refer to the husband or
> wife of the leader of a monarchy, whether it is a prince, a king or a queen.
It's used in English too:  queen-consort, prince-consort.  The latter title
isn't technically applied to Elizabeth II's husband Philip, who is
simply Prince Philip, but it *was* applied to Victoria's husband Albert.

The countervailing adjective is "regnant"; Elizabeth is a queen-regnant,
though of course that is not her title either.

Note the anomalous noun-adjective order.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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