highness

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• /ˈhaɪnəs/
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From Middle English hyghnesse; equivalent to high + -ness.

Calque of Italian altezza, from Late Latin altitia, from altus + -itia, equivalent to high + -ness. See highness for formation of the English term.

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: korkeus — state of being high
• Finnish: ylhäisyys — state of being high
• French: altesse — state of being high
• Latin: celsitudo — state of being high
• Swedish: höghet — state of being high
• Catalan: altesa — title for royalty
• Esperanto: moŝto — title for royalty
• Arabic: سُمُوّ (sumuww) — form of address
• Arabic: سُمُوَّة (sumuwwa) — form of address
• Belarusian: высо́касць (vysókascʹ) — form of address
• Bulgarian: висо́чество (visóčestvo) — form of address
• Catalan: altesa — form of address
• Chinese Mandarin: 殿下 (diànxià) — form of address
• Chinese Mandarin: 閣下 /阁下 (géxià) — form of address
• Czech: výsost — form of address
• Danish: højhed — form of address
• Dutch: hoogheid — form of address
• Erzya: сэрейчи (sërejči) — form of address
• Esperanto: moŝto — form of address
• Esperanto: alteco — form of address
• Finnish: ylhäisyys — form of address
• French: altesse — form of address
• German: Hoheit — form of address
• Greek: Υψηλότατος (Ypsilótatos) — form of address
• Greek: Υψηλοτάτη (Ypsilotáti) — form of address
• Italian: altezza — form of address
• Japanese: 殿下 (denka) — form of address
• Korean: 전하 (jeonha) — form of address
• Latvian: augstība — form of address
• Macedonian: висо́чество (visóčestvo) — form of address
• Norwegian Bokmål: høyhet — form of address
• Polish: wysokość — form of address
• Portuguese: alteza — form of address
• Romanian: alteță — form of address
• Russian: высо́чество (vysóčestvo) — form of address
• Serbo-Croatian: височа̀нство — form of address
• Serbo-Croatian: visočànstvo — form of address
• Slovak: výsosť — form of address
• Slovene: visočanstvo — form of address
• Spanish: alteza — form of address
• Ukrainian: висо́кість (vysókistʹ) — form of address
• Welsh: Uchelder — form of address