köken: From Middle High German vürste, from Old High German furisto, from the substantivised weak inflection of Proto-West Germanic *furist, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“first”). Calque of Latin prī̆nceps.
köken: From Middle Dutch prince, from Old French prince, from Latin princeps (“first”), notably in princeps civitatis (“first citizen”), the primary title of the Roman 'emperor' under the still republican constitution.
köken: From Middle Low German vürste and German Fürst, from Proto-Germanic *furistaz (“first”), cognate with English first, Old Norse fyrstr. Doublet of første. The etymon is a calque of prī̆nceps, making this also a doublet of prins.
köken: Inherited from Malay pangeran (“prince”) (compare to Malay pengiran (“prince”)), from Javanese ꦥꦔꦺꦫꦤ꧀ (pangéran, “Lord; prince”), from Old Javanese paṅeran (“person, prince, princess, wife, daughter”, literally “master, lord”) (compare to paṅheran (“waiting-place, dwelling-place”)).
prince (son or male-line grandson of a reigning monarch)
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 皇子, composed of 皇 (“emperor”) and 子 (“son”). The "imperial" connotation of hoàng has been lost due to its favorability over vương, likely due to the influence of historically imperial China and imperial Vietnam, whose monarchs referred to themselves as hoàng đế (“emperor”) or used hoàng in their titles (e.g. Lí Chiêu Hoàng) Compare hoàng hậu (“queen consort”, literally…