France

See also: france and Francë

English

Wikivoyage

Map showing the location of France (in red).

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French France, Old French France, from Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe, of unclear (but Proto-Germanic) origin.[1] Compare Frank.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fɹɑːns/, /fɹæns/
  • (US) IPA(key): /fɹæns/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːns, -æns
  • Rhymes: -æns

Proper noun

France (plural Frances)

  1. A country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain. Official name: French Republic.
    • 1998, Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore →ISBN, page 2:
      Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
    • 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian‎:
      Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.
  2. A French surname​.
    Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist

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References

  1. ↑ A. C. Murray, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader. Broadview Press Ltd, 2000. p. 1.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʁɑ̃s/
  • audio (France)(file)
  • audio (Quebec)(file)

Etymology

From Middle French France, from Old French France, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe.

Proper noun

France f

  1. France (country)
  2. A female given name
  3. A French surname​.

Derived terms

Descendants

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French France.

Proper noun

France f

  1. France (country of the Europe)

Descendants

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French France, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Proper noun

France f

  1. (Jersey) France

Old French

Excerpt from the Oxford manuscript of The Song of Roland showing 'francs' and 'france' without capital letters.

Alternative forms

  • france (manuscript form)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfrãn.t͡sə/

Proper noun

France f (nominative singular France)

  1. France (country)

Descendants

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