"Roussillon" meaning in French

See Roussillon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ʁu.si.jɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Arthur Crbz-Canet-en-Roussillon.wav
Rhymes: -ɔ̃ Etymology: From Latin Ruscinōnem. Compare Catalan Rosselló. The municipality of Québec is named after the Régiment Royal-Roussillon infantry regiment. The regiment was stationed in the territory in the winter of 1758 - 1759. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|la|Ruscinō|Ruscinōnem}} Latin Ruscinōnem, {{cog|ca|Rosselló}} Catalan Rosselló Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|m}} Roussillon m
  1. Roussillon (a region of the Occitania region, France) Tags: masculine Categories (place): Places in France, Places in Occitania, France, Regions of France Meronyms: Perpignan Derived forms: Canet-en-Roussillon, Castel-Roussillon, Château-Roussillon, Languedoc-Roussillon, Le Péage-de-Roussillon, Roussillon-en-Morvan, roussillonnais
    Sense id: en-Roussillon-fr-name-B9shr1Xj
  2. a regional county municipality of Montérégie, Quebec, Canada Tags: masculine Categories (place): Places in Canada, Places in Quebec, Canada, Regional county municipalities of Quebec, Canada
    Sense id: en-Roussillon-fr-name-PBTwFp6B Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 2 17 3 16 13 8 12 14 2 8 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 16 2 16 12 7 12 13 2 15 3
  3. a village in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France Tags: masculine Categories (place): Places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Places in France, Places in Isère, France, Villages in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Villages in Isère, France
    Sense id: en-Roussillon-fr-name-N7VnpX2d Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 2 17 3 16 13 8 12 14 2 8 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 16 2 16 12 7 12 13 2 15 3
  4. a village in Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, France Tags: masculine Categories (place): Places in France, Places in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Places in Vaucluse, France, Villages in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Villages in Vaucluse, France
    Sense id: en-Roussillon-fr-name-A0or~0rC
  5. (obsolete) synonym of Château-Roussillon Tags: masculine, obsolete Synonyms: Château-Roussillon [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-Roussillon-fr-name-Br6p1LG0 Categories (other): Pages with entries, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 16 2 16 12 7 12 13 2 15 3 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 12 23 25 3 33 4
  6. a surname Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-Roussillon-fr-name-v2O7m9sM Categories (other): French surnames
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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 2025-08-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (8b3c49c and 3c020d2). 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.