Other forms: princesses
A princess is the daughter of a king or a queen. The crown princess, a fairy-tale princess, princess and prince.
It also names the wife of a prince, and in some countries a woman ruling in her own right. Used of an adult it can be an insult meaning spoilt and demanding, and it is aimed almost entirely at women, which is worth noticing.
1nounprincessThe daughter of a king or a queen.
“In the fairy tale, the princess escapes from the tower and rides home to her father's castle.”
princess is a royal person.
Old French princesse is the feminine of prince, from Latin princeps, the first citizen.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂p-
Old French
princesse
Anglo-Norman
princesse
Middle English
princesse
English, today
princess
From Middle English princesse, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman princesse, Old French princesse. by surface analysis, prince + -ess.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA