"Loire" meaning in French

See Loire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /lwaʁ/ Audio: Fr-Paris--Loire.ogg [Paris], LL-Q150 (fra)-0x010C-Loire.wav
Etymology: Inherited from Latin Liger, itself borrowed from the native Gaulish name of the river, from *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”) (see also French lie, English lees), from Proto-Celtic *legyā, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), the same source as many words in English such as lie, ledge, etc. Etymology templates: {{root|fr|ine-pro|*legʰ-}}, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|la|Liger|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin Liger, {{inh+|fr|la|Liger}} Inherited from Latin Liger, {{der|fr|cel-gau|-}} Gaulish, {{m|cel-gau|*liga|t=silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium}} *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”), {{m+|fr|lie}} French lie, {{cog|en|lees}} English lees, {{der|fr|cel-pro|*legyā}} Proto-Celtic *legyā, {{der|fr|ine-pro|*legʰ-||to lie, lay}} Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), {{m|en|lie}} lie, {{m|en|ledge}} ledge Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|f}} Loire f
  1. Loire (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Departments of France, Places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Places in France
    Sense id: en-Loire-fr-name-RR6nRXho
  2. Loire (a major river in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Centre-Val de Loire and Pays de la Loire regions, France) Tags: feminine Categories (place): Places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Places in Centre-Val de Loire, Places in France, Places in Pays de la Loire, Rivers in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Rivers in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Rivers in Centre-Val de Loire, Rivers in France, Rivers in Pays de la Loire
    Sense id: en-Loire-fr-name-gvBAPkWL Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 28 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Cosne-sur-Loire, Haute-Loire, La Celle-sur-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, Tracy-sur-Loire, Val de Loire Related terms: ligérien

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-0x010C-Loire.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-0x010C-Loire.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-0x010C-Loire.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-0x010C-Loire.wav.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
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  ],
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.