Etymology

landgrave

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Today it means: One holding a specific nobiliary title ranking as count in certain feudal countships in the Holy Roman Empire, in present Germany. Full definition →

German Landgraf
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  1. German · derived fromLandgraf
  2. English todaylandgrave

From German Landgraf, itself from Land (“land, territory, principality”) + Graf (“count”), from *grafa (“military rank”), from Latin graphio. More at graft.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.