France

See also: france and Francë

English
Map showing the location of France (in red).

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English France, from Old French France, from Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe, of unclear (but Proto-Germanic) origin.[1] Believed to be most likely from Frankish *Frankō (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preng- (“pole, stalk”). Compare Frank. Displaced native Old English Francland.

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

Proper noun

France (usually uncountable, plural Frances)

  1. A country in Western Europe. Official name: French Republic. Capital and largest city: Paris.
    • 1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat‎, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:
      For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
    • 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 surname from French, famously held by—
    1. Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist.
  3. Alternative form of Frances; A female given name; feminine of Francis.

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

Further reading

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin Francia.

Proper noun

France f

  1. France (a country in Western Europe)

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (France) IPA(key): /fʁɑ̃s/
    • (Provence) IPA(key): /fʁãⁿsə/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /fʁãs/
  • Audio (France)(file)
  • Audio (Quebec)(file)

Proper noun

France f

  1. France (a country in Western Europe)
  2. a female given name
  3. a French surname

Derived terms

Descendants

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Anagrams

Friulian

Proper noun

France f

  1. France (a country in Western Europe)

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French France.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfrãsə/

Proper noun

France f

  1. France (a country in Western Europe)

Descendants

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French France, from Late Latin Francia.

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Proper noun

France f

  1. (Jersey) France (a country in Western Europe)

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin Francia.

Pronunciation
  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈfɾant͡sə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈfɾansə/

Proper noun

France f (nominative singular France)

  1. France (a country in Western Europe)

Descendants
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