count

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).

1. Countable.

   “For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.”

2. Used to show the amount of like items in a package.

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conte.

1. The male ruler of a county.

   “After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?”

2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin com- Latin putus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin computō Anglo-Norman counterbor. Middle English counten English count From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute. Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).

1. To recite numbers in sequence.

   “Can you count to a hundred?”

   “The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.”

2. To determine the number of (objects in a group).

   “Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.”

   “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]”

3. To amount to, to number in total.

   “They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]”

4. To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).

   “Your views don’t count here.”

   “It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.”

5. To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.

   “Apples count as a type of fruit.”

   “This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.”

6. To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.

   “He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.”

   “I count you as more than a friend.”

7. To reckon in, to include in consideration.

   “They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.”

8. To take account or note (of), to care (for).

   “[…]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.”

9. To recount, to tell.
10. To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.