''Comte'' is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word 'count' (Latin: ''comes''); ''comté'' is the Gallo-Romance form of the word 'county' (Latin: ''comitatus'').
Comte or Comté may refer to:
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count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New Yor ...
in French, from Latin ''comes''
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county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in France, that is, the territory ruled by a count
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La Comté, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département of France
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Comté cheese, a French cheese from Franche-Comté
People with the surname
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Alfred Comte (1895–1965), Swiss aviation pioneer
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Auguste Comte
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense ...
(1798–1857), French philosopher
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Charles Comte (1782–1837), French lawyer, journalist and political writer
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Claudine le Comte
Claudine le Comte (born 27 February 1950) is a Belgian fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil events at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics
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(born 1950), Belgian fencer
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Fabienne Comte, French statistician
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Fernando Compte (1930–2013), founder and first president of the International Sambo Federation
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Ferran Soriano i Compte (born 1967), Spanish CEO of various football clubs, including Manchester City F.C.
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Harry Comte (1909—1945), Australian rules footballer
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Louis Comte (1788–1859), French magician
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Maurice Compte (born 1969), American actor
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Pere Compte (died 1506), Spanish Catalan architect
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Raphaël Comte (born 1979), Swiss politician
See also
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Vicomte, the French equivalent of a viscount
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Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, ...
, a traditional province of eastern France
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Conde (disambiguation), the Spanish, Portuguese and Galician term for ''Count''
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Conte (disambiguation)
Conte may refer to:
* Conte (literature), a literary genre
* Conte (surname)
* Conté, a drawing medium
* Conte, Jura, town in France
* Conté royal family, a fictional family in Tamora Pierce's Tortallan world
* Conte, the title of Count in ...
, the Italian term for ''Count''
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Le Compte (disambiguation)
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