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

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, December 31, 2000, 5:26
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. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter