Margaux

English: Margaux

English: Margo

Variant of Margot, diminutive of the female given name Marguerite (“Margaret”)

the brand name of a red wine produced in Margot, France

Margaux (“a female given name”). Alternative form of Margot. diminutive of Marguerite (“Margaret”). Margaux was popular in the 1990s and the 2000s


Océane

Modern feminine form of Océan, from Latin Ōceanus, Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós), the god of sea and the name of an early Christian saint.

a female given name, popular in the 1990s and the 2000s


Marielle

English: Marielle

a diminutive of the female given name Marie


Marielle

Jean-Pierre Marielle, b. 1932


Geneviève

From Medieval Latin Genovefa.
* Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“kin, family”) + *wībą (“woman, wife”).
* Perhaps of Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *Genogʷībā (from *genos (“family”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”).

uder

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="cel-pro">*genos</i> (“family”)

a female given name, equivalent to English Genevieve


Noëlle

a female given name, feminine form of Noël. Equivalent to the English Noelle


Manon

→ Dutch: Manon

Pet form of Marie, made famous by Manon Lescaut, heroine of a novel (1731) by Abbé Prévost, and of two operas.


Odile

Name of a 7th/8th century saint of Alsace ; derivative of a short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the element od-, ot- "riches," from Frankish *aud.


Marinette

a female given name, a diminutive of Marine ( =Marina)


La Nouvelle-Orléans

From nouvelle (“new”) + Orléans; named after Regent Philip, Duke of Orléans (“Orleans”), a place in France.

New Orleans (a city in Louisiana, United States)


Louisiane

English: Louisiana

Haitian Creole: Lwizyàn

Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn

Portuguese: Luisiana

Spanish: Luisiana

From Louis + -iane.
Named for king Louis XIV of France.

Louisiana (a state of the United States)

Louisiana (former French territory in North America)


Hawaï

Ultimately from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi, from Hawaiki, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki.

Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands#English

Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands (an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean)

Hawaii (an island in the Hawaiian Islands)


Claudie

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Claudia


Tiphaine

a female given name, equivalent to English Tiffany


Yolande

a female given name, equivalent to English Yolanda


Rémi

a male given name, alternative spelling of Remi


Rébecca

a female given name, equivalent to English Rebecca


Viviane

a female given name, masculine equivalent Vivian, equivalent to English Vivian


Mélissa

a female given name, equivalent to English Melissa


Roseline

a female given name, equivalent to English Rosaline


Ophélie

Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by Jacopo Sannazaro from Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleia, “help”, “aid”, “succour”).

der

a female given name of 1990s popular usage, equivalent to English Ophelia


Romane

a female given name, a modern feminine form of Romain


Romaine

a female given name, feminine form of Romain


GRC

Gendarmerie Royale du Canada
w:fr:Gendarmerie Royale du Canada

(law enforcement, Canada) Initialism of Gendarmerie Royale du Canada (“Royal Canadian Mounted Police”): RCMP


Tuileries

From tuileries, feminine plural of tuilerie (“place for manufacturing tiles”). The name comes from the tile kilns which occupied the site before the palace.

fr:Jardin des Tuileries
fr:Palais des Tuileries


Sahara occidental

Western Sahara
Western Sahara#English:_Q6250

Western Sahara (A territory and former Spanish colony in North Africa, now mostly occupied by Morocco, which claims ownership over the territory)


Sainte-Hélène

Saint Helena
Saint Helena#English:_Q34497

Saint Helena (An island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean, and an overseas territory of the United Kingdom)


îles Vierges britanniques

fr-proper noun

îles Vierges britanniques f pl (plural only)

British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands#English

British Virgin Islands (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean)


Sicile

→ Persian: سیسیل (sisil)

Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)


Aristote

Borrowed from Latin Aristotelēs, itself a borrowing Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs).

(historical) Aristotle (an Ancient Greek given name, most notably borne by the fourth century BCE philosopher Aristotle)


Albane

a female given name, masculine equivalent Alban


La Haye

→ Arabic: لَاهاي (lāhāy)

→ Persian: لاهه (lâhe)

From Middle French, from the noun haye (modern haie), a calque of Middle Dutch die Haghe (modern Dutch Den Haag), from haghe (“enclosure”).

The Hague (the administrative capital of the Netherlands)


Euclide

Borrowed from Latin Euclīdes, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Εὐκλείδης (Eukleídēs).

A male given name of historical usage, equivalent to English Euclid

Euclid of Megara (ancient Greek philosopher)


Paname

Louis comptait les jours comme un potache qui attend le 14 juillet pour aller à Paname.

1963, Yvonne Martinet, Moucheron, Éditions Alternance, page 23:

Louis was counting the days like a schoolboy waiting to go to Paris on Bastille Day.


Anjouan

Borrowed from Ndzwani Comorian Ndzuwani.


Lesly

a female given name, a less common spelling off Leslie


Côme

a male given name, equivalent to English Cosmo

Como (the capital city of the province of Como, Lombardy, Italy)


Boucher

Translingual: Boucher

English: Boucher

Portuguese: Boucher

Spanish: Boucher

Surname for a butcher (“boucher”), from Old French bochier (“butcher”), from boc (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk (“buck”, literally “butcher”). See also English butcher, buck.

der

a surname, Boucher, transferred from the common noun or originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Butcher


Pise

Pisa (the capital city of the province of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy)


Méduse

From Latin Medusa, from Ancient Greek Μέδουσα (Médousa).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Medusa


Marches

administrative region
administrative region

Marche (an administrative region in central Italy)


Aliénor

a female given name from Provençal, equivalent to English Eleanor


Élisée

(biblical) Elisha (prophet, disciple and successor of Elijah)


Aylmer

The name of the district is derived from the English surname Aylmer. The area is named after British military officer and colonial administrator Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer (1775–1850).

A district of Gatineau, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.


Flo

a diminutive of the female given name Florence

a diminutive of the male given name Florent


la Flanelle

la Sainte-Flanelle
la Sainte-Flanelle#French

(Quebec, sports) Alternative form of la Sainte-Flanelle


CIC

Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada
w:fr:Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada

(Canada, historical) Initialism of Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada (“Citizenship and Immigration Canada”): CIC


Pennsylvanie

Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)


RFI

Radio France Internationale
w:Radio France Internationale

(communication) Initialism of Radio France Internationale.


RCI

(Canada, radio) Initialism of Radio Canada International.

(French Antilles, radio) Abbreviation of Radio Caraïbes International.


RCI

(radio) Abbreviation of Radio Chine Internationale.

Abbreviation of république de Côte d’Ivoire.


îles Canaries

autonomous community
autonomous community

Canary Islands (an archipelago and autonomous community of Spain)


Canadiens

(Canada) the Montreal Canadiens hockey club


Habs

Max Domi… un HABS. Proche de la réalité? Les Coyotes reçoivent offre après offre du CH.

Max Domi… a Hab. Close to reality? The Coyotes received offer after offer from the Canadiens.

(Canada) a member of the Montreal Canadiens

les Canadiens

whole team also referred to in singular: le Canadien


Carrière

Translingual: Carrière


Mélodie

a female given name, equivalent to English Melody


Roxane

→ Dutch: Roxane

→ English: Roxane

→ German: Roxane

Roxana (the wife of Alexander the Great)

a female given name, equivalent to English Roxana


Kyiv

La dispersion par les Allemands des assemblées des paysans, les arrestations faites à Kyiv après le coup d’état devinrent le signal de la révolte des paysans.

(Can we date this quote?), La lutte sociale et politique en Ukraine 1917-1918-1919, page 28:

La deuxième petite rivière, Lybed, maintenant à peine visible, autrefois assez importante (3), limitait les hauteurs de Kyiv au sud ; […]

(Can we date this quote?), Bulletin of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, page 10:

Soixante élèves sont également inscrits à l’«école du dimanche» de la communauté juive ukrainienne, à Kyiv.

1996, Documents de séance, Council of Europe, page 11, column 2:

De 1941 à 1945, les armées hitlériennes luttèrent contre celles de Staline à Kyiv, Lviv, Odessa et Sébastopol.

2019, Anne Applebaum, Famine rouge : La guerre de Staline en Ukraine [Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine], Grasset, →ISBN:

From 1941 to 1945, Hitler's armies fought against those of Stalin at Kyiv, Lviv, Odessa and Sebastopol.

D’origine japonaise, j’ai grandi en Ukraine, où je suis arrivée à l’âge de 10 ans avec mes parents, qui se sont installés à Kyiv après avoir travaillé trois ans à Moscou.

2022, Asami Terajima, quotee, Carnet de bord de la résistance ukrainienne, Nouveau Monde, →ISBN:

Of Japanese origin, I grew up in Ukraine, where I turned 10 with my parents, who moved to Kyiv after working for three years in Moscow.


Roberte

a female given name, masculine equivalent Robert, equivalent to English Roberta


Roch

a male given name, equivalent to English Rocco


îles Cook

Cook Islands
Cook Islands#English:_Q26988

Cook Islands (An archipelago and self-governing country in Oceania, in free association with New Zealand)


Constantin

a male given name, equivalent to English Constantine


République Française

République française
République française#French

Alternative form of République française


Nicodème

Borrowed from Latin Nīcodēmus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Νικόδημος (Nikódēmos).


Théophile

Borrowed from Latin Theophilus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Θεόφιλος (Theóphilos).

(biblical) Theophilus (addressee in the New Testament)


Collett

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Nicolas.


Cap-Vert

Cape Verde (an archipelago and country in West Africa)


Nouvelle-Écosse

From nouvelle (feminine of nouveau (“new”)) + Écosse (“Scotland”); calque of Latin Nova Scotia.

af

feminine of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">nouveau</i> (“new”)

Nouvelle-Ecosse

diacritics are not universally used on capital letters


Esprit-Saint

(Christianity) Holy Spirit (one of the three persons of the Holy Trinity)


T.-N.

Terre-Neuve, former name of a province in Canada

Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, a province of Canada

Île de Terre-Neuve, a large island in eastern Canada

(obsolete) Terre Neuve, a former country occupying eastern North America


N.-É.

Abbreviation of Nouvelle-Écosse (a province in Canada)


I.-P.-E.

Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island#English

PEI, Prince Edward Island (an island and province of Canada)


Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador

fr-proper noun

Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador m pl (plural only)

From Terre-Neuve (“Newfoundland”) + Labrador, literally “Newfoundland and Labrador”.

af

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

Newfoundland and Labrador (a province of Canada)


Île-du-Prince-Édouard

Prince Edward Island (an island and province of Canada)


Terre-Neuve

English: Terreneuvian

From terre (“land”) + neuve (“new”), literally “new land”.

Newfoundland Island
Newfoundland Island#English

Newfoundland, Newfoundland Island (a large island, part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada)

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland (the former name of Newfoundland and Labrador, a province in in eastern Canada)

Dominion of Newfoundland
Dominion of Newfoundland#English

(obsolete) Newfoundland, the Dominion of Newfoundland (a former country in extreme eastern North America)


Gémeaux

From the plural of gémeau, a dialectal variant of jumeau (from Old French gemel), from Latin gemellus (“twin”).


PQ

(Canadian politics) Initialism of Parti Québécois

(dated, Canada) Initialism of province de Québec


C.-B.

Colombie-Britannique, a province in Canada


Colombie-Britannique

British Columbia
British Columbia#English


Perséphone

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē).


Hypnos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὕπνος (Húpnos).


Ignace

a male given name, equivalent to English Ignatius


Jean-Loup

a male given name, combination of Jean and Loup


Jean-Joël

a male given name, combination of Jean and Joël


Jean-Pascal

a male given name, combination of Jean and Pascal


Jean-Guy

a male given name, combination of Jean and Guy


Jean-Noël

a male given name, combination of Jean and Noël


ALÉNA

Acronym of Accord de libre-échange nord-américain.

acronym

NAFTA (“North American Free Trade Agreement”)


GOQ

Abbreviation of Grand-Officier de l’Ordre National de Québec (“Grandee of the National Order of Quebec”).


SADC

w:fr:Société d'assurance-dépôts du Canada

(Canada, banking) Initialism of Société d’assurance-dépôts du Canada (“Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation”): CDIC


Basile

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Basilius, from Ancient Greek Βασίλειος (Basíleios).

slbor

a male given name, equivalent to English Basil


Égide

a male given name of mostly historical usage, equivalent to English Aegidius


Mohamed

Synonym of Mahomet (“Muhammad (prophet)”)

a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Muhammad


Ambre

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-place Joannès-Ambre.wav

a female given name of modern usage, equivalent to English Amber


TER

Transport express régional
w:Transport express régional

Initialism of Transport express régional, the brand name of the French train company SNCF for intra-regional travel


RER

Réseau Express Régional (Regional Express Network)

Réseau Express Régional
w:Réseau Express Régional

Initialism of Réseau Express Régional., a Parisian tram, train and bus system


TNO

Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Territoires du Nord-Ouest#French

NWT (“Northwest Territories”): Abbreviation of Territoires du Nord-Ouest.


Tchétchénie

Chechnya (a republic of the northern Caucasus of Russia; capital: Grozny)


Nouvelle-Angleterre

From nouvelle (feminine of nouveau (“new”)) + Angleterre (“England”); calque of English New England.


Cachemire

Borrowed from Sanskrit कश्मीर (kaśmīra).

Kashmir (a region of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) China, India, and Pakistan)


Léonard

a male given name, equivalent to English Leonard


Ulysse

Borrowed from Latin Ulyssēs. The Roman name is commonly used for the Greek character, perhaps because a Greek-derived name would be rendered identically to Odyssée (“Odyssey”).


Darfour

Borrowed from Arabic دار فور (Dār Fūr, “land of the Fur”).


FAO

Forces Armées Occidentales
w:Western Armed Forces

Initialism of Forces Armées Occidentales, a Chadian insurgent group


Tchécoslovaquie

Czechoslovakia (a former country in Central Europe)


Yougoslavie

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jugoslavija.

Southeast Europe
Southeast Europe#English

Yugoslavia (a former country in Southeast Europe)


Petronille

Inherited from Middle French Petronille, from Latin Petronella.


Akram

Yasmine Akram, b. 1982

Akram Belkaïd, b. 1964


Amin

Amin Maalouf, b. 1949

a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Amin


Humbert

From Proto-Germanic *hūnaz (“offspring, (bear) cub”) + *berhtaz (“bright”).


From Coupe 2 (“Cup 2”), because was the second more important football competition in Europe.

Coupe d'Europe des vainqueurs de coupe de football

the defunct UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1960-1999)


From Coupe 1 (“Cup 1”), because is the more important football competition in Europe.


Ardèche

Ardèche (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

Ardèche (a right tributary of the Rhône in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Occitanie, France)


Socrate

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs).


Orly

Orly (a city and commune of the department of Val-de-Marne, region of Île-de-France, France)


Déborah

a female given name; the modern English style spelling of biblical Débora


NPD

Nouveau Parti démocratique
Nouveau Parti démocratique#French

New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party

(Canada) NDP; initialism of Nouveau Parti démocratique (“New Democratic Party”).


Edmée

a female given name, a feminine diminutive form of Edmond


Basse-Terre

Compound of bas (“low”) + terre (“land”).

Basse-Terre (the capital city of the overseas department of Guadeloupe, France)

Basse-Terre (an island comprising the western half of the overseas department of Guadeloupe)


Amaury

Jean Amaury, b. 1900

a male given name, equivalent to English Amory


Riyad

Riyadh (the capital city of Saudi Arabia)


Émeric

Taken from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home”) + *rīkiją (“ruler”); cf. *Haimarīks. Cognate to French Henri and English Emery or Henry.


Liliane

a female given name, equivalent to English Lilian


Godefroy

a male given name, equivalent to English Godfrey


Geoffroy

From Germanic origin, perhaps Frankish *Gardifriþu or *Gaiʀafriþu. See Geoffrey for more.

a male given name, equivalent to English Geoffrey


OL

(soccer) Initialism of Olympique Lyonnais. (a soccer team from the French town of Lyons)


Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès

Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis#English

Saint Kitts and Nevis (a country consisting of two islands in the Caribbean)


Blanche-Neige

From blanche (“white”) + neige (“snow”).


Francfort

Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)

Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)


Girard

a surname originating as a patronymic based on the given name Gérard


Wallonie

From Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”); alternatively from wallon + -ie.


Toile d'araignée mondiale

Toile d’ araignée mondiale (canonical feminine)


Genèse

From Latin genesis, from Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “creation”).


Turkménistan

Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia)


Silésie

Silesia (a historical region in Central Europe, shared between the Czech Republic and Poland)


Sénégalais

fr-noun

Sénégalais m (plural Sénégalais, feminine Sénégalaise)

Sénégalais (plural)
Sénégalaise (feminine)

a Senegalese, member or descendant of the population of from Senegal


Gouverneur générale

fr-proper noun

Gouverneur générale m (feminine Gouverneure générale)

(politics) gouverneur générale — the Governor General


Gouverneure générale

Gouverneure générale f (masculine Gouverneur générale)

gouverneure générale
gouverneure générale

(politics) gouverneure générale — the Governor General


Père Fouettard

In French culture, a traditional Yuletide character, who accompanies Saint Nicholas and punishes naughty children


PLQ

Parti libéral du Québec
Parti libéral du Québec#French

(Canadian politics) Initialism of Parti libéral du Québec (“Quebec Liberal Party”).


ADQ

Action démocratique du Québec
Action démocratique du Québec

(Canadian politics) Action démocratique du Québec (a political party in Quebec)


Action démocratique

(Canadian politics) Action démocratique du Québec


Action démocratique du Québec

l’Action démocratique du Québec (canonical feminine)

(Canadian politics) a conservative autonomist political party in Québec


BQ

(initialism, Canada, politics) Bloc Québécois—a political party of Canada


PCC

Parti conservateur du Canada
w:fr:Parti conservateur du Canada

Initialism of Parti conservateur du Canada (“CPC”).

Parti communiste chinois
w:fr:Parti communiste chinois

Initialism of Parti communiste chinois (“CPC”).


ENA

C’est au lendemain du mouvement des « gilets jaunes » qu’Emmanuel Macron avait fait la promesse de supprimer l’ENA.

2021 April 9, “La fin de l’ENA, une étape vers le renouveau de l’Etat”, in Le Monde:

École nationale d’administration
w:École nationale d'administration

Acronym of École nationale d’administration.


CGT

Confédération générale du travail
Confédération générale du travail

Confédération générale du travail (a French trade union)


Caroline du Nord

North Carolina (a state of the United States)


Gand

There seems to be 2 hypothesis both concerning water.
1) Gand comes the name of a Gallo-Roman vicus called Ganda, a Celtic word that meant confluant.
2) Gand comes from the Celtic word that had a relation with water, Gond.
That name Gond was transformed by the Frankish to Gand.

Ghent (the capital and largest city of East Flanders, Belgium)


IRAP

(astrophysics) Initialism of Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie.

fr:Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie


Rhône

Rhone (a major river in France and Switzerland)

Rhône (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)


Sparte

→ Persian: اسپارت (espârt)

From Latin Sparta, from Ancient Greek Σπάρτη (Spártē).

Sparta (ancient city-state in southern Greece)


Pinard

English: Pinard


Ossétie du Sud

LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Ossétie du Sud.wav


Béotie

Boeotia (a district in east central Central Greece)


Pythagore

Borrowed from Latin Pythagorās, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Πυθαγόρας (Puthagóras).

Pythagoras (Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher)


bande de Gaza

Gaza Strip (A region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel)


Assedic

w:fr:Association pour l'emploi dans l'industrie et le commerce

Acronym of Association pour l’emploi dans l’industrie et le commerce. (company managing unemployment insurance payments)


Landes

Landes (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)


Méditerranée

From mer Méditerranée, from méditerranée, feminine of méditerrané.

mer Méditerranée
mer Méditerranée#French

Short for mer Méditerranée (“Mediterranean”).


TSR

Télévision Suisse Romande
w:Télévision Suisse Romande

(historical, broadcasting) Initialism of Télévision Suisse Romande, the Swiss-French television channel


Aalénien

(geology, paleontology) the Aalenian period


Astérix

Humorous modification of astérisque (“asterisk”) in imitation of the numerous Gaulish names ending in *rīx (“king”).


Garand

a surname derived from garant (“guarantor”)


Verseau

From verseau (an uncovered column's watershedding tilted upperside), from verser 'to pour, shed' + eau 'water'.

(astronomy) the stellar constellation Aquarius


Plutarque

Borrowed from Latin Plūtarchus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Πλούταρχος (Ploútarkhos).


Sainte-Flanelle

From sainte (“holy”) + flanelle (“flannel (shirt)”), implying a religious-like devotion among fans.

af

(Quebec, ice hockey) A nickname for the Montreal Canadiens Hockey team.


Abitibi

Derived from Algonquin abi'ta-bi-g (“halfway across water”), from abi'ta (“halfway”) + bi (“water”).

bor

A regional county municipality of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.


Bombardier

English: Bombardier

desc

→ Chinese: → 邦巴爾迪耶／邦巴尔迪耶 (Bāngbā'ěrdíyē) (transliteration)


Picard

English: Picard

a common French surname transferred from the place name, for a resident or native of Picardy


Suzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 蘇州／苏州 (Sūzhōu).

zh-l

蘇州／苏州 (Sūzhōu)

Suzhou (a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China)


Anatole

From Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise”). Cognate with Latin Anatolius.


Gervaise

a female given name, a rare feminine form of Gervais ( Gervase)


Charlène

a female given name, popular in France around 1990


Gervais

LL-Q150 (fra)-Harmonia Amanda-Le Pré-Saint-Gervais.wav

a male given name, equivalent to English Gervase


Acadie

From Latin Acadia, a corruption of Ancient Greek Ἀρκᾰδίᾱ (Arkadíā), or from Mi'kmaq akadie (“fertile land”).

(historical) a French Northern American colony, part of Nouvelle-France (New France), comprising the present Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia (French Nouvelle-Écosse) and New Brunswick (French Nouveau-Brunswick, split off) and Cape Breton Island (French Île du Cap-Breton, split off but ultimately (re)integrated into Nova Scotia)


Émilienne

a female given name, masculine equivalent Émilien


Émilien

From Latin Aemilianus, a derivative of Aemilius.


Marie-Ange

a female given name, combination of Marie and Ange


Marlène

Marlene: a female given name from German Marlene


ARYM

Acronym of Ancienne République yougoslave de Macédoine.

FYROM (former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)


Besançon

Ultimately from the Latin name of the city, Vesontiō (accusative Vesontiōnem).

Besançon (a commune, the capital of the Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)


Béziers

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin Betarra, Baeterrae.

Béziers (a city in the Hérault department, France)


Léopold

a male given name, equivalent to English Leopold


Saitama

Saitama (the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan).


Kaohsiung

L’incendie d’un immeuble d’habitation a causé la mort, jeudi 14 octobre, d’au moins 46 personnes et a fait des dizaines de blessés à Kaohsiung, dans le sud de Taïwan.

2021 October 14, “À Taïwan, l'incendie d'un immeuble fait des dizaines de morts”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2021-10-14, Asie-Pacifique:

On Thursday 14 October, a fire in a block of flats caused the death of at least 46 people and injured dozens in Kaohsiung, in the south of Taiwan.

Kaohsiung (a city and special municipality in southern Taiwan, and the third largest city in Taiwan)


Marrakech

Marrakech (the capital city of the Marrakesh-Safi region, Morocco)


République d'Irlande

la République d’ Irlande (canonical feminine)

Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland#English

Republic of Ireland, Ireland (a country in Western Europe)


Irlande du Nord

Haitian Creole: Ilann dinò

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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

Northern Ireland (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)


Flandre

→ Ottoman Turkish: فلاندره (Flandre)

Turkish: Flandre

→ Persian: فلاندر (felândr)


Côte d'Azur

→ English: Côte d’Azur

English: Cote d'Azur

côte + de + azur Literally, “Coast of Azure”.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur#English

Côte d’Azur (a coast in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, on the Mediterranean), the French Riviera


Eiffel

English: Eiffel

desc

→ Chinese: → 埃菲爾／埃菲尔 (Āifēi'ěr) (transliteration)


OMS

Initialism of Organisation Mondiale de la Santé. WHO (World Health Organisation)


Bichkek

à Bichkek

de Bichkek


Oulan-Bator

à Oulan-Bator

de l’Oulan-Bator ― from Ulan Bator; relating to Ulan Bator


Katmandou

à Katmandou

de Katmandou


Hanoï

à Hanoï

de Hanoï ― from Hanoi; relating to Hanoi (sometimes written as d'Hanoï)


Nicosie

à Nicosie

de Nicosie

Nicosia (the capital city of Cyprus; capital city of Northern Cyprus)


Andorre-la-Vieille

à Andorre-la-Vieille

in Andorra la Vella; to Andorra la Vella

de l’Andorre-la-Vieille

from Andorra la Vella; relating to Andorra la Vella

Andorra la Vella
Andorra la Vella#English

Andorra la Vella (the capital city of Andorra)


Cheng

Borrowed from Chinese 程 (chéng)/成 (chéng), etc.

Anne Cheng, b. 1955

(very rare) a French surname from Chinese


Séoul

Borrowed from Korean 서울 (Seoul). Note that it predates the standard romanization Seoul in Korean.

à Séoul

de Séoul


Téhéran

à Téhéran
in Tehran; to Tehran

de Téhéran
from Tehran; relating to Tehran


La Valette

à La Valette

de La Valette


Abou Dabi

Borrowed from Arabic أَبُو ظَبْي (ʔabū ẓaby, “father of the gazelle”).

bor+

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates#English

Abu Dhabi (an emirate of the United Arab Emirates)

Abu Dhabi (the capital city of the United Arab Emirates; capital city of Abu Dhabi emirate, United Arab Emirates)


Ciudad de Guatemala

à Ciudad de Guatemala

de la Ciudad de Guatemala

from Guatemala City; relating to Guatemala City

Guatemala City (the capital city of Guatemala)


Guerre froide

the Cold War, partially proxy-fought conflict between the West and the Communist camp in 1945-1991


Pangée

Pangaea (supercontinent prior to Triassic)


Pangée

Holonym: Macédoine


Seigneur

les voies du Seigneur sont impénétrables


Bouvier

a surname, Bouvier, originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Cowherd or Coward


Mandchourie

Used by western nations starting in the 19th century, from Mandchou + -ie; the 'R' was added for ease of pronunciation.


Pandore

Borrowed from Latin Pandōra, from Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra, “all gifts”).


Iakoutsk

Yakutsk (the capital city of Sakha, Russia)


Iekaterinbourg

Yekaterinburg (a city, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia)


tour Eiffel

J’ai quitté Paris et même la France, parce que la tour Eiffel finissait par m’ennuyer trop. Non seulement on la voyait de partout, mais on la trouvait partout, faite de toutes les matières connues, exposée à toutes les vitres, cauchemar inévitable et torturant.

1890, Guy de Maupassant, La vie errante:

Left Paris, and France, too, on account of the Eiffel Tower. It could not only be seen from everywhere, but it could be found everywhere, made of every kind of known material, exhibited in all windows, an ever-present and racking nightmare.


FE

(automotive, sports) Abbreviation of Formule E (“Formula E”).


Ermengarde

A female given name of historical usage, equivalent to English Ermengarde


Anansi

(mythology) Anansi (trickster spider in West African and Caribbean folklore)


Bonifacio

Borrowed from Italian Bonifacio, from Late Latin Bonifātius, named after Boniface II of Tuscany. Doublet of Boniface.

Bonifacio (a city and commune of Corse-du-Sud, Corsica)


pays du Soleil-Levant

le pays du Soleil-Levant (canonical masculine)

pays du Soleil Levant
pays du Soleil Levant#French

Alternative spelling of pays du Soleil Levant


Bassorah

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْبَصْرَة (al-baṣra).


Samoa américaines

American Samoa (an archipelago and overseas territory of the United States in Polynesia)


Andalousie

autonomous community
autonomous community

Andalusia (an autonomous community of Spain)


Émirats arabes unis

LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Émirats arabes unis.wav

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates#English:_Q878

United Arab Emirates (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)


Alcibiade

Borrowed from Latin Alcibiadēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs).


ÉAU

Émirats arabes unis
Émirats arabes unis#French

(rare) Abbreviation of Émirats arabes unis (UAE, United Arab Emirates)


Sublime Porte

→ English: Sublime Porte

Calque of Ottoman Turkish باب عالی (Babıali).

calque

the Sublime Porte, Ottoman sultanic palace, court, capital and empire


Gaule

→ English: Gaul

Inherited from Middle French Gaule, from Old French Gaule, Waulle (“Gaul”), from Frankish *Walhaland (“Gaul”, literally “land of the Romans or foreigners”).
Cognate with Old High German Walh, Walah (“Celt, Roman, Gaul”), Old English wealh, walh (“a non-germanic foreigner, Celt”), Old Norse Valir (“Gauls, Frenchmen”). More at Wales, Cornwall, Walloon.
Despite their similar appearance, Latin Gallia is not the origin of French Gaule. During the evolution from Latin to French, stressed initial /ˈɡa-/ yielded /dʒa/ > /ʒa/ (cf. Latin gamba > French jambe), while unstressed final /-lia/ yielded /ʎə/ > /j/ (cf. Latin filia > French fille). Thus, the regular outcome of Latin Gallia is /ʒaj/ ⟨Jaille⟩, which is attested in several French toponyms: La Jaille-Yvon, Saint-Mars-la-Jaille, etc.

der

Gaul (historical region roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland along with parts of Italy, the Netherlands and Germany)


Aurélia

Borrowed from Latin Aurelia. A Latinate variant of Aurélie.


TAS

Tribunal Arbitral du Sport
Tribunal Arbitral du Sport#French

(law, sports) CAS (“Court of Arbitration for Sport”); Abbreviation of Tribunal Arbitral du Sport.


Mahé

→ English: Mahé

Borrowed from Malayalam മയ്യഴി (mayyaḻi), the name given to the local river and region.

bor+

Mahé (a small town in Mahé district, in the union territory of Puducherry, India)

Mahé (former French enclave comprising the town of Mahé and a few neigbouring towns, in the colonial part of French India)


Mahé

Named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, a French governor of Isle de France (modern Mauritius).

Mahé (the largest island of the Seychelles)


Nouméa

Nouméa (capital city of the French overseas territory New Caledonia)


Abou Dhabi

LL-Q150 (fra)-Arthur Crbz-Abou Dhabi.wav


Médoc

From Latin (Pagus) Medullicus (“country of the Medulli”), the local Celtic/Gaulish tribe who had inhabited the area. This name is probably from Proto-Celtic *medwos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“mead”), or alternatively *medyos (“middle”).


Abomey

Abomey (the capital city of the Zou department, in southern Benin)

(dated) Dahomey (former name of Benin, a country in West Africa)


Mérida

From Spanish, from the third word of the Roman name “colōnia Augusta Ēmerita”, from the feminine of Latin ēmeritus (“veteran”), referring to the Iberian city being founded as an imperial veterans’ colony.

the city Mérida in Spain's western region Estremadura, in Badajoz province

Latin American cities named Mérida after the above:

in Venezuela, an eponymous district capital in Guzman province


Aboukir

Aboukir, a village and bay in Egypt site of two iconic battles of the French military


Abruzzes

administrative region
administrative region

(plural only) Abruzzo (an administrative region in central Italy)

(plural only) a mountain chain in the Apennines


Saint-Louis

English: Saint Louis

From Louis IX, a canonized 13th-century king of France. See also Louis.


Côte d'Or

the Côte d'Or département (equivalent of a county) in France’s eastern region Bourgogne (Burgundy)

the Côte d'Or chain of hills West of the Saône valley, which the above département was named after


OEA

Organisation des États américains
w:fr:Organisation des États américains

Initialism of Organisation des États américains (“OAS”).


Saintes

Dutch: Saintes

English: Saintes

From Middle French Xaintes, from Old French Xainctes, from Latin Santones, from Ancient Greek Σάντονες, Σάντονοι, Σάντωνες (Sántones, Sántonoi, Sántōnes), a Celtic tribe that lived in the region of Xainctonge and the settlement of Xainctes (now Saintes, France).

der

Σάντονες, Σάντονοι, Σάντωνες

Saintes; A city in the southeastern French département Charente-Maritime, the former capital of the Saintonge province

Saintes; A French Catholic diocese named after the above, its see

Saintes; A French arrondissement named after the above, its capital


Saintes

Dutch: Saintes

English: Saintes

Ellipsis of îles des Saintes., from the capitalization of saintes, from Spanish Los Santos, from being named after All Saints' Day by Christopher Columbus in 1493, after the recently past holy day of November 1st, before discovery on 4 November of that year.
The French feminine form "saintes" is related to the term "îles", which is feminine in French, whereas the original Spanish term "santos" is masculine, and related to the holiday "Día de Todos los Santos", which is also masculine.

(in the plural) Saintes; A small French Caribbean island chain in the Leeward Islands, a dependency of Guadeloupe


Esculape

From Latin Aesculapius, from Ancient Greek (Asklepios); cognate with Dutch esculaap.

Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of healing, born a mortal


Calabre

Holonym: Italie

Calabria (a peninsula and administrative region of southern Italy)


Antilles néerlandaises

fr-proper noun

Antilles néerlandaises f pl (plural only)

Antilles 'Antilles' + the feminine plural of néerlandais 'Dutch'

Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Antilles


Wallis-et-Futuna

Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna#English

Wallis and Futuna (an overseas territory of France, in the South Sea, part of Oceania, named after its main islands)


Territoires du Nord-Ouest

Territoires du Nord-Ouest m pl (plural only)

Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories


Béarn

From Medieval Latin Beneharnum, corruption of Benarni, Vernarni, Gaulish pronunciation of an Aquitanian/Basque tribe in southwest France.
The municipality in Québec is named after the Béarn Regiment.

Pau est la capitale du Béarn
Pau is the capital city of Béarn

A municipality of Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.


Saint Charles

Saint Charles: Any of various saints named Charles


Gênes

From Latin Genua, whence also Italian Genova.

Genoa (the capital city of Liguria, Italy)

Genoa (a metropolitan city of Liguria, Italy)


Bohême

From Middle French Bohême, from Late Latin Boiohaemum. For the etymology, see Bohemia.

Bohemia (A historical region in the west of Czech Republic.)


Angora

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish, from Latin Ancyra, from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).

« Angora est nationaliste, en ce sens qu’elle renonce aux prétensions de l’ancien Empire ottoman et qu’elle veut recréer un foyer turc modeste[…] »

1924, Berthe Georges-Gaulis, La nouvelle Turquie:

“Ankara is nationalist, in the sense that it renounces the pretensions of the old Ottoman Empire and wants to recreate a modest Turkish centre […] ”

Il y a, dans le vieil Angora, pour celui qui a conservé le goût du passé, pour celui qui veut voir l’image des superpositions de civilisations dans un même lieu, des habitudes séculaires, différentes les unes des autres[…]

1931, Eugène Pittard, Le visage nouveau de la Turquie: à travers l'Asie-Mineure:

There is, in the old Ankara, for the one who has preserved a taste for the past, for the one who wants to see an image of many civilizations superimposed in the same place, secular habits, different one from another […]

L’offensive est arrêtée. Angora est sauvée. La Turquie patriote, qui a conservé sa foi, a vaincu.

The offensive has been stopped. Ankara is saved. Patriotic Turkey, who has kept the faith, has triumphed.


Majorque

From Latin īnsula maior "larger island"; the intermediate form was Maiorica.


Vénétie

Veneto (an administrative region of northern Italy, roughly corresponding to the ancient Venetia)


Brandebourg

États de la zone: Bade-Wurtemberg · Bavière · Brandebourg · Hesse · Basse-Saxe · Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale · Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie · Rhénanie-Palatinat · Sarre · Saxe · Saxe-Anhalt · Schleswig-Holstein · Thuringe

Brandenburg (a city in Brandenburg, Germany)

Brandenburg (region of Germany, formerly a principality and presently a state in Germany)


Rhénanie-Palatinat

Calque of German Rheinland-Pfalz, from Rhénanie + Palatinat

Rhineland-Palatinate (a state of Germany)


Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie

Calque of German Nordrhein-Westfalen. From Rhénanie + du + Nord + Westphalie

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

North Rhine-Westphalia (a state of Germany)


Ligurie

From Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).

Liguria (an administrative region of northwest Italy)


Faucheuse

Grim Reaper (a personification of Death as a cloaked old man or a skeleton, usually carrying a scythe)


Grosse Pomme

Calque of English Big Apple, of unknown origin.

(informal) Big Apple (nickname for New York City)


Mourad

Borrowed from Arabic مُرَاد (murād). Equivalent to English Murad, Turkish Murat.


Novatien

Novatian, the antipope against St. Cornelius in 251 AD, and schismatic heresiarch as founder of the sect known as Novatianism


Nouveau-Mexique

From nouveau (“new”) (from Latin novus) + Mexique (“Mexico”).

New Mexico (a state of the United States)

New Mexico (a former territory of Mexico and the United States)


Egbert

Inherited from Middle French, from Medieval Latin Ecbertus.

Egbert de Liège, b. ca 972


Anastasie

a female given name, equivalent to English Anastasia


Far West

the western part of the United States, earlier defined as the American frontier and later as the areas west of the Midwest


Eurasie

Eurasia (a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia)


Ossétie

Ossetia, a Caucasian region, ancestral home of the Ossetic culture


Mahmoud

Joseph Mahmoud, b. 1955


Médor

(1516) From Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.

Fido, Rex, Rover; a name stereotypically given to dogs.


Maltais

English: Maltais


Pas de Calais

pas 'a pass, strait' (from Latin passus 'step, pace') + de 'of' + Calais

the English Channel or Strait of Dover, the North Sea strait between Dover (England) and Calais (France)


Pas-de-Calais

From Pas de Calais (“Dover Strait”), itself from pas (“pass, strait”) + de (“of”) + Calais.

af

Pas-de-Calais (a department of Hauts-de-France, France)


Katanga

Democratic Republic of the Congo#English

A region in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, originally conquered by the Congo Free State (owned by the Belgian king, not his European state) but administered as a corporate mining concession

Since 1910, an autonomous part of the Belgian colony Congo

Since 1933, a regular province, until 1947 however named after its capital: Elisabethstad in Dutch or Elisabethville in French

In 1960 a unilaterally declared independent state; in 1961-63 reconquered by Congo and reorganized in three provinces until 1966; renamed Shaba 1972-1997 as part of president Mobutu's Zairization


Viennois

→ English: Viennois

→ German: Viennois

→ Russian: Вьеннуа́ (Vʹjennuá)

→ Ukrainian: В'єннуа́ (Vʺjennuá)


Chandeleur

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *candelōrum, an alteration of candelārum, an ellipsis of festa candelārum. This is a rare example of a French word directly descended from a genitive form; compare leur from illōrum.


Parme

Borrowed from Italian Parma, from Latin.

Parma (a province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Parma (the capital city of the province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)


Autriche-Hongrie

Austria-Hungary (a former empire in Central Europe and Eastern Europe)


Galicie

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a tribe in the region”).

Galicia (area of Central/Eastern Europe)


Galice

From Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a Celtic tribe in the region”).

Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)


Adenot

a surname based on a medieval diminutive of Adam


Adanet

a rare surname, derived from a medieval diminutive of Adam


Axe

(history) Axis (World War Two nation group)


Abeau

a male given name, a very rare variant of Abel


Abelin

a diminutive of the male given name Abel


République française

la République française (canonical feminine)

French Republic (the official name of France, a country in Western Europe)


Pérouse

Perugia (the capital city of Umbria, Italy; capital city of the metropolitan city of Perugia, Umbria, Italy)


Sienne

Siena (the capital city of the province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy)


Tarente

Taranto (the capital city of the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy)


Messine

Borrowed from Italian Messina, from Latin Messāna, from Ancient Greek Μεσσήνη (Messḗnē).

Messina (a metropolitan city of Sicily, Italy)

Messina (the capital city of the metropolitan city of Messina, Sicily, Italy)


Hérodote

Borrowed from Latin Hērodotus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἡρόδοτος (Hēródotos).

(Ancient Greece) Herodotus (a fifth century BCE historian)


Hésiode

Borrowed from Latin Hēsiodus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἡσίοδος (Hēsíodos).


Pentagone

Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States of America's Department of Defense)


Euripide

Borrowed from Latin Eurīpidēs, from Ancient Greek Εὐρῑπῐ́δης (Eurīpídēs).


Mayence

Esperanto: Majenco

Japanese: マイエンス (Maiensu)

Occitan: Maiança

Inherited from Latin Mogontiacum, the Roman name of the settlement, from a Celtic language.

Mainz (a city, the state capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)


Sophocle

Borrowed from Latin Sophoclēs, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Σοφοκλῆς (Sophoklês).


Néolithique

Borrowed from Latin neolithicum. By surface analysis, néo- + -lith + -ique.

surf

(history) the Neolithic or New Stone Age


âge du fer

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océan Atlantique

Atlantic Ocean (the ocean lying between the Americas to the west and Europe and Africa to the east)


DDO

Dollard-Des Ormeaux
w:fr:Dollard-Des Ormeaux

Initialism of Dollard-Des Ormeaux—a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada


Hispanie

Hispania; the area of the Roman Empire now equivalent to modern Spain


AOR

athlètes olympiques de Russie
athlètes olympiques de Russie#French

Abbreviation of athlètes olympiques de Russie.


Nouvelle-Zemble

Novaya Zemlya (an archipelago in Russia)


Novossibirsk

Novosibirsk (a city, the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia)


Roméo

a male given name, equivalent to English Romeo


Thècle

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(rare) a female given name, equivalent to English Thecla


Madame Watanabe

Mrs. Watanabe (personification of the Japanese housewife speculators)


PSG

English: PSG

Paris Saint-Germain Football Club
w:fr:Paris Saint-Germain Football Club

(soccer) PSG: Initialism of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, a French football club from Paris


Ginette

a female given name, a diminutive of Geneviève


Josette

→ Italian: Giosetta

a diminutive of the female given name Joséphine


Komintern

Comintern (international association of Communist parties)


Tartempion

(colloquial) John Doe (any unknown or anonymous male person)


Mégane

a female given name, equivalent to English Megan


République du Congo

From république (“republic”) (ultimately from Latin res publica (“public affairs, commonwealth”)) + du (“of the”) + Congo (from a native Congolese language).

uder

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo#English:_Q971

Republic of the Congo (a country in Central Africa)


Pau

Possibly related to pieu (“stake, post”), or possibly related to pieux (“pious”), referring to a nearby ford named by the church. Or, possibly from a pre-Indo-European toponym *pal, *bal referring to its location at the foot of the mountains.


Braz

Sur le talus descendant vers le Tamanduatehy et qui domine les quartiers populaires du Braz et de la Penha, subsistaient encore en 1935 quelques ruelles provinciales et des largos : places carrées et herbues, entourées de maisons basses à toit de tuiles et à petites fenêtres grillagées, peintes à la chaux, [...]

1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 109; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:

— On the slope which leads down to the Tamanduatehy and overlooks the working-class districts of Braz and Penha, there still remained, in 1935, a few small provinvial streets and largos, grassy squares surrounded by low, tiled and whitewashed houses with small barred windows.

District of São Paulo, Brazil (Brás in Portuguese)


Sauvanne

a female given name, equivalent to English Sauvane


Montcuq

a French commune in the department of Lot, region of Occitania


Saint-Valentin

J’irai dans un bar ce soir. Aujourd’hui c’est la Saint-Valentin. J’irai seule ; je m’offrirai une rose.

I'll be in a bar tonight. Today's Valentine's Day. I'll be alone; I'll give me a rose.

Valentine's Day (a holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love)


Tobie

(rare) a male given name of biblical origin


Gascogne

→ Swedish: Gascogne

From Middle French and Old French Gascoigne, from Medieval Latin Gasconia, from Vulgar Latin Wasconia, from Latin Vasconia, from Vascones + -ia, from Ancient Greek Οὐασκώνων (Ouaskṓnōn), as used by Strabo in his 1st-century Geographica, Book III. Variously derived from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) (literally “he-goat people”) or a variant of Ausci (from which Aquitan, Occitan, and perhaps related to Euskara). Cognate to Basque. Compare Gascon.
For sound changes: /v/ → /w/ occurred in the change from Latin to Proto-Romance, while /w/ → /g/ common in (non-Iberian) Romance languages, notably French; compare warranty and guarantee, William and Guillaume. By contrast, /v/ developed into /b/ and /β̞/ in Spanish and Gascon, under influence of Basque, hence the divergence.


Raimond

A male given name of historical usage, equivalent to English Raymond


Hanovre

Hanover (the capital and largest city of Lower Saxony, Germany)


Marson

→ English: Marson

* (rue voie romaine Saumur-Doué): From Latin Marcum, from Marcus, from Martinus (“Saint Martin”) (Bishop of Tours), from Martis, from Mars.

Ellipsis of Marson-sur-Barboure. A commune of Vaucouleurs canton, Commercy, Meuse department, Grand Est, France

Marson-sur-Barboure

Châlons-en-Champagne 3
Châlons-en-Champagne 3#English

A commune and village Châlons-en-Champagne 3 canton, Châlons-en-Champagne, Marne department, Grand Est, France

Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire#English

A village in Riou-Marson district, Rou-Marson, Saumur canton, Saumur, Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France


Glorieux

les Glorieux (canonical masculine plural)

(Quebec, ice hockey, slang) the Montreal Canadiens (a professional ice hockey club in Montreal)


Colas

a common surname originating as a patronymic


Ampère

Surname originating near Grenoble in the French Alps, possibly from Occitan emperi (“empire”), from Latin imperium, referring to the nearby Holy Roman Empire.

André-Marie Ampère, French physicist

Jean-Jacques Ampère, French author


Paléolithique

Borrowed from Latin palaeolithicum. By surface analysis, paléo- + -lith + -ique.

surf

(history) the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age


Saône

→ English: Saône

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Saône (a right tributary of the Rhône, in eastern France)


Phuket

Phuket (a city, province, and island in Thailand)


Cléopâtre

a female given name, equivalent to English Cleopatra


Amiens

Amiens (the capital city of the Somme department, Hauts-de-France region, France)


Parisome

the genus Parisoma: formerly one of the genera of warblers, in family Sylviidae, but now often taken to be a superspecies within genus Sylvia


Dracon

Borrowed from Latin Dracō, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drákōn).


Ibérie

L’Ibérie comprend l’Espagne et le Portugal.

the European pensinsula Iberia, south of the Pyrenees


Ille

Inherited from Middle French Yle, from Old French Ysla, from Isla, from Latin īnsula (“island”).


Australie-Occidentale

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

Western Australia (a state of Australia)


Bethsabée

(rare) a female given name originating from the Bible


CSARS

w:fr:Comité de surveillance des activités de renseignement de sécurité

(Canada) Initialism of Comité de surveillance des activités de renseignement de sécurité — SIRC


CSTC

w:fr:Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada

(Canada) Initialism of Centre de la sécurité des télécommunications Canada: CSEC


Forces armées canadiennes

fr-proper noun

Forces armées canadiennes f pl (plural only)


Sûreté

From the noun sûreté (“safety, security”).

(law enforcement, France) Sûreté Nationale

(law enforcement, Quebec) Sûreté du Québec


SPVM

(law enforcement) Initialism of Service de police de la Ville de Montréal. SPVM


mer Égée

Haitian Creole: lanmè Eje

desc

→ Persian: دریای اژه (daryâ-ye eže) (partial calque)

From Latin Aegaeum mare, itself a partial calque of Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος (Aigaîon pélagos).

der

Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος


Sûreté du Québec

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Sûreté du Québec
Sûreté du Québec#English

(Quebec, law enforcement) Sûreté du Québec


Assise

Assisi (a town and comune of Perugia, Umbria, Italy)


Carcassonne

First attested as the Roman name, Latin Carcasō (Pliny).


fr-proper noun

le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord

le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d’Irlande du Nord m

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland#English

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the official name of the United Kingdom, a country in Western Europe)

fr:Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord


STCUM

Montreal Urban Community
Montreal Urban Community

(transport) Société de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal — the MUCTC – the transit corporation for the Montreal Urban Community; it replaced the CTCUM in 1985 and was replaced by the STM in 2002


CTCUM

(transport) Commission de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal — the MUCTC – the transit commission for the Montreal Urban Community; in 1970, it replaced the CTM, it was replaced by the STCUM in 1985


CUM

Communauté urbaine de Montréal
Communauté urbaine de Montréal

Conseil d'agglomération de Montréal
Conseil d'agglomération de Montréal

Montreal Agglomeration Council
Montreal Agglomeration Council

(government) Communauté urbaine de Montréal — MUC – the supramunicipal level of government for the island of Montreal and several surrounding islands. It was formed in 1970, and in 2002 it was replaced by the CMM. It was reformed in 2006 as the Conseil d'agglomération de Montréal (Montreal Agglomeration Council)


SPCUM

(law enforcement) Service de police de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal — SPCUM – the MUC police service, replaced by the SPVM


MTC

Montreal Tramways Company
Montreal Tramways Company

(transport) MTC — Montreal Tramways Company – the transit company of the island of Montreal; it was nationalized and replaced by the CTM in 1950, it was formed in 1911 by the merger of several previous companies


CMM

Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal
Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal

Metropolitan Montreal
Metropolitan Montreal

(government) Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal — MMC – the supramunicipal level of government for Metropolitan Montreal. It was formed in 2002 and replaced the CUM


CTM

Commission de transport de Montréal
Commission de transport de Montréal

(transport) Commission de transport de Montréal — the MTC – the transit commission for the Island of Montreal; in 1970 it was replaced by the CTCUM, it replaced the MTC in 1950


AMT

Réseau de transport métropolitain
Réseau de transport métropolitain

(transport) MTA - AMT — Agence métropolitaine de transport – the former public transit agency for the CMM, now replaced by the RTM - the Réseau de transport métropolitain


Jehan

Borrowed from Middle French Jehan, ultimately from Latin Iōhannēs.


Sigolène

a female given name, equivalent to German Sieglinde


Félicité

a female given name, equivalent to English Felicity


Hermine

Partially from German Hermine and partially from hermine (“ermine”).


Tibériade

From the Latin Tiberiadem, from Ancient Greek Τιβεριάς (Tiberiás).


Jéricho

Inherited from Middle French Iericho, from Old French Iericho, from Latin Ierichō, from Ancient Greek Ἰεριχώ (Ierikhṓ), from Biblical Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ (yərīḥō).

Jericho (a city in the West Bank, Palestine)


Émeline

Variant of Ameline, cognate to English Emmeline.


Adélie

a diminutive of the female given name Adèle


Seconde Guerre mondiale

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Honoré

From Late Latin Honorātus, from honōrātus. Cognate with Italian Onorato.


Cap-Haïtien

English: Cap-Haïtien, Cape Haitien

Cap-Haïtien (a city on the north coast of Haiti).


Stanislas

a male given name, equivalent to English Stanislaus


Indochine

Indochine:


Guyane française

French Guiana
French Guiana#English:_Q3769

administrative region
administrative region

French Guiana (an overseas department and administrative region of France in South America)


Séraphine

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Seraphina


Honorine

From Late Latin Honorina, name of an early Christian martyr, feminine of Honorinus, derivative of Honorius.


Iseult

a female given name, equivalent to English Iseult


Neuwiller

a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace, eastern France, located on the Swiss border and less than 10km from the German-speaking city of Basel


Geispitzen

A commune of the Haut-Rhin department, Alsace, France


Wissembourg

A commune of the Bas-Rhin department, Alsace, France


Montreux-Vieux

a commune in the Sundgau region of the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace, located in eastern France. Montreux-Vieux is between Mulhouse and Belfort


Ammerschwihr

Ammerschwihr (a small town and commune of the Haut-Rhin department, Grand Est, Alsace, France, near the large town of Colmar)


îles Féroé

les îles Féroé (canonical feminine plural)

Faroe Islands (an archipelago and autonomous country in Denmark)


Dornach

A neighbourhood in western Mulhouse, Alsace, France

A town in Solothurn canton, in northern Switzerland


Colmar

Possibly from a Roman name Latin collis Martis or collis Marius, or from Frankish/Germanic elements corresponding to English coal market, or from Latin columba (“pigeon”).

A city in central Alsace, eastern France


Belfort

From Old French Belfort, from bel (“beautiful”) + fort. Doublet of beaufort.

Territoire de Belfort
Territoire de Belfort#English

Belfort (a city and commune, the prefecture of the Territoire de Belfort department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)


Bouroundi

Rare spelling of Burundi (“Burundi (a country in East Africa)”).


Ethiopie

Alternative form of Éthiopie: Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)


Equateur

Alternative form of Équateur: Ecuador (a country in South America)


Emirats arabes unis

Émirats arabes unis
Émirats arabes unis#French


Kirghizstan

Alternative form of Kirghizistan: Kyrgyzstan (a country in Central Asia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China)


Grand Pardon

/ɡʁɑ̃ paʁ.dɔ̃/

(Judaism) the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)


ROU

(sports) Abbreviation of Rouyn-Noranda. (Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada)


ASM

w:Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club

(soccer) Initialism of Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club, a soccer team from Monaco


Caravage

Borrowed from Italian Caravaggio, his family's place of origin. .


SJ

(sports) SJ (“San Jose”) Abbreviation of San Jose. (a city in California)


Pichilemu

[…] de bonne heure il mouilla à Pichilemu, à 90 milles au sud de Valparaiso […]

1893, Revue maritime et coloniale, volume 116, page 106:

De San Fernando part un embranchement de chemin de fer qui se rend a la Palmilla et aboutira plus tard sur la côte, à la rade ouverte et peu hospitalière de Pichilemu.

1898, Edouard Charton, Le Tour du monde: nouveau journal des voyages, page 622:

Du surf vers Pichilemu pour les amateurs.

2011, Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Chili - Îles de Paques, page 178:


Galois

a surname from Old French; variant form Gallois


Pamir

Pamir (a mountain range in Central Asia)


Polynésie française

French Polynesia
French Polynesia#English

French Polynesia (an archipelago and overseas territory of France in Oceania)


Lithuanie

Alternative form of Lituanie: Lithuania (a country in Eastern Europe)


Cervin

Inherited from Middle French Servin, from Old French Selvin, from Late Latin mōns (“mountain”) silvanus (“wooded”). The first letter was changed to a C when Genevan geologist Horace Bénédict de Saussure confused the name with French cerf (“deer”).


heure normale de l'est

heure normale de l’ est (canonical feminine)

Eastern Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time

daylight savings time
daylight savings time

Eastern Standard Time, the Eastern Timezone in non-daylight savings time


HNE

heure normale de l’Est
w:fr:heure normale de l'Est

Initialism of heure normale de l’Est (“Eastern Standard Time”): EST


Mytilène

Mytilene (the capital city of the island of Lesbos, Greece, and capital city of the North Aegean region, Greece)


Casablanca

Casablanca (the capital city of the region of Casablanca-Settat, Morocco)


Thaïs

a female given name, equivalent to English Thais


Virginie-Occidentale

West Virginia (a state of the United States)


Bételgeuse

Borrowed from Arabic بَيْت الْجَوْزَاء (bayt al-jawzāʔ), confused with يَد الْجَوْزَاء (yad al-jawzāʔ).

bor+

بَيْت الْجَوْزَاء


Sarko

(colloquial) Nicolas Sarkozy, French president from 2007-2012


Jurassique

Named for the discovery and type location in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland.


Paléocène

Coined by French geologist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874, originally intended as being paléo- + Éocène, as he imagined this term to cover the earliest Eocene.


Holocène

Coined by Paul Gervais in 1850 from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “entire”) + καινός (kainós, “new”).


Malou

a diminutive of the female given name Marie-Louise


Guyot

a male given name from Old French, rare today


Claira

English: Claira

Borrowed from Catalan Clairà. Clayra attested on the Cassini map (1740s).

Claira (a town and commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, France)


Fantômas

one of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction


Ghyslaine

Alternative form of Ghislaine (less common spelling variant); female equivalent of Ghislain.

a female given name from the Germanic languages


Lens

a city in, and the capital of, the French department Pas-de-Calais


Messines

The municipality in Québec is named after the city of Messines in Belgium; Canadian troops fought in and around the city during the First World War.

La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau#English

Messines (a municipality of La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada).


Haut-Canada

Haut (“high”) + Canada. From its position on the Saint Lawrence River.


Bas-Canada

bas (“low”) + Canada. From its position on the Saint Lawrence River.


Abyssinie

Abyssinia (former name of Ethiopia, a country in East Africa)


Dalila

a female given name, equivalent to English Delilah


Six Nations

Réserve des Six Nations
Réserve des Six Nations#French

(Canada) Six Nations; Ellipsis of Réserve des Six Nations.

Ligue des Six Nations
Ligue des Six Nations#French

(North America) Six Nations; Ellipsis of Ligue des Six Nations.

Tournoi des Six Nations
Tournoi des Six Nations#French

(France) Six Nations; Ellipsis of Tournoi des Six Nations.


Clermont-Ferrand

From the Roman names, Latin clarus mons (“clear mountain”) and mons ferratus (“mountain with iron”) (represented by modern Montferrat).


Just

a male given name, equivalent to English Justus


échelle de Richter

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Pañchatantra

Panchatantra (a collection of Sanskrit and Pali animal fables in verse and prose)


Esmée

English: Esmee

Dutch: Esmee

a female given name, masculine equivalent Esmé; Dated form of Esmé.


Bérénice

Through Latin Berenicē, borrowed from Ancient Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē). Doublet of Véronique.

a female given name, equivalent to English Berenice


Asie centrale

Central Asia (smaller area of Central Asia)


Grande Ourse

Ursa Major (large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky)


Jèsus

(dialectal, rare) Alternative form of Jésus (“Jesus Christ”)


Dubois

English: Dubois

desc

→ Chinese: → 迪布瓦 (Díbùwǎ) (transliteration)

a habitational surname, equivalent to English Woods


Thorne

The municipality is named after the English market town of Thorne.

A municipality of Pontiac, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.


Anjou

Inherited from Old French Angevin, from Medieval Latin Andegavinus, from Latin Andegavum, from Andecavi.


Carpenter

Borrowed from English Carpenter, from Latin carpentarius. Doublet of Charpentier.


LOSC

Lille Olympique Sporting Club
w:Lille Olympique Sporting Club

(soccer) Initialism of Lille Olympique Sporting Club, a French football club from the town of Lille


AJA

(soccer) Initialism of AJ Auxerre, a French football club from the town of Auxerre


TFC

Toulouse Football Club
w:Toulouse Football Club

(soccer) Initialism of Toulouse Football Club, a French football (soccer) club from Toulouse

Toulouse Football Club

(soccer) Initialism of Toronto FC, a Canadian soccer club from Toronto


Auxerre

Auxerre (a city and commune of the Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)


FFF

Fédération Française de Football
w:French Football Federation

(soccer) Initialism of Fédération Française de Football, the governing body of football (soccer) in France


Annecy

Inherited from Middle French Anasseu, from the Gallo-Roman name, Latin Anneacum, Anericiacum, Anicius, Aniciacus, Aniciaca, "belonging to Anecius," from a Germanic personal name Anerik (Latinized Annarigus).

Annecy (a city, the capital of the Haute-Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)


Saint-Malo

Said to be named after Saint Malo of Wales, whose name could be from Old Breton machlou, from mach (“hostage, warrant”) + lou (“beautiful, bright, brilliant”) (probably from the same source as Gaulish leux (“light, brilliance”)).


Després

From des + prés, literally “from the meadows”. Compare Dutch van de Velde and the Latinized form Pratensis.


Cantal

Cantal (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)


Cloutier

From cloutier.
The neighbourhood is named after Catholic bishop François-Xavier Cloutier (1848 - 1934).

a surname originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Naylor

A neighbourhood and former municipality of Rouyn-Noranda, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.


FMI

Initialism of Fonds monétaire international (“International Monetary Fund”).

initialism

International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund#English


Boulanger

a surname, Boulanger, originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Baker


Vérone

Verona (the capital city of the province of Verona, Veneto, Italy)


Palerme

Palermo (a metropolitan city of Sicily, Italy)

Palermo (the capital city of Sicily, Italy; capital city of the metropolitan city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy)


Livourne

Borrowed from Italian Livorno, from Old Italian Legorno, from Latin Liburnus, from Liburni, name of the ancient population of Liburnians.

Livorno (a province and city in Tuscany, Italy)


Florentin

a male given name, equivalent to German Florentin


Pouilles

administrative region
administrative region

Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)


Ombrie

Umbria (an administrative region in central Italy)


Basilicate

Basilicata (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Aoste

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal, from the Latin name of the location, Augusta Praetōria Salassōrum, whence also Italian Aosta.


Campanie

Campania (an administrative region of southern Italy)


Ardennes

Ardennes (forest and mountainous region in France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg)

Ardennes (a department of Grand Est, France, (INSEE code 08))


Kalifat

a French surname, equivalent to English Kalifat


Fessebouc

From English Facebook. Also a pun of fesser (“to spank”) and bouc (“billy-goat”).

Yet plenty of businesses fear that their workers will surf on the internet, that interactive color TV now stuck to every desk, take up most of their time reading private emails, spend hours on hours on Web 2.0 (aah, Meetic, Spankbilly-goat), or even spending time totally illegal streaming.

Or nombre d’entreprises craignent que leurs salariés n’aillent surfer sur internet, cette télévision couleur interactive désormais posée sur chaque bureau, se consacrent largement à leur courriel privé, ou passent des heures sur le Web 2 (ah, Meetic ou FesseBouc !) voire à des enregistrements ou streamings tout à fait illégaux. (Jean-Emmanuel Ray, Droit du travail Droit vivant 2008-2009, 2008.)


Chiron

(Greek mythology) an old, wise centaur who served as Achilles' mentor and teacher

(astronomy, astrology) Chiron, a centaur (minor planet) and asteroid-like/comet-like object, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus


Hécate

(Greek mythology) Hecate (goddess of crossroads and witchcraft)


Cousteau

From Middle French cousteau (“knife”), from Old French custel, from Latin cutellis. Compare Sicilian Cuteḍḍi.


Grand Chelem

/ɡʁɑ̃ ʃ(ə).lɛm/


Allemagne de l'Est

Allemagne de l’ Est (canonical feminine)

East Germany (a former country in Central Europe)


Rameau

→ English: Rameau


Bérangère

/be.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/

a female given name, variant of Bérengère


Violaine

Coined name of a character in the play L'Annonce faite à Marie (1912) by Paul Claudel, as a variant of Violette or transferred from a place name.


Capucine

From capucine (“nasturtium”). First used as a stage name by a 20th century French actress.


Maxence

From the Late Latin saint's name Maxentius.


Bérengère

/be.ʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/

From the name of medieval queens, called Berengaria in English. Feminine form of Bérenger, from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“carry”) and *gaizaz (“spear”).


Cécilia

From Latin Caecilia, a Latinate variant of Cécile. Cognate to English Cecilia.


Boniface

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Bonifatius.

slbor

a male given name of mainly historical usage


Mathis

a male given name revived since the 1990s


Ajaccio

Borrowed from Italian Ajaccio, from Corsican Aiacciu, Old Italian Addiazzo, from Latin Adiacium, possibly from Tuscan Italian agghiacciu (“sheep pen”), or from a derivative of Byzantine Greek ἀγαθός (agathós, “good fortune, mooring”); related to Agde.

der

Ajaccio (the capital and largest city of Corsica, France)


Simonet

English: Simonet

English: Simonett


Dany

English: Dany

diminutive of Daniel a male given name, equivalent to English Danny

diminutive of Danielle a female given name, equivalent to English Dani


Yasmine

Variant of Jasmine, often representing a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic and Persian names.

a female given name from Arabic or Persian


Nakamura

Borrowed from Japanese 中村 (Nakamura) or 仲村 (Nakamura).


Belle au bois dormant

From the phrasing used by Charles Perrault in Ma Mère l'Oye (published in 1697).
Literally, “Beauty sleeping in the wood”, with the archaic positioning of the present participle after its complement which was frequent in Old French (as in chemin faisant and tambour battant); the modern French equivalent would be Belle dormant au bois. It is also dormant and not dormante because present participles have been invariable in French since a decision of 3 June 1679 of the Académie Française (of which Perrault was a member).


Petit Chaperon rouge

Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood


Kasbarian

Borrowed from Armenian Գասպարյան (Gasparyan).

bor+

Guillaume Kasbarian, b. 1987


Andromède

(Greek mythology) Andromeda (mythical daughter of Cepheus)


Françafrique

Blend of France + Afrique.
* 15 août 1945, Jean Piot, "Il nous faudra surtout concentrer notre effort sur l'essentiel - sur ce qui, dans le monde nouveau, doit faire, à l'avantage commun, bloc avec nous : sur ce que j'appellerai la « Françafrique » in L'Aurore : organe de la résistance républicaine

(often derogatory) relations between France and its former colonies in Africa; often characterized by users of the term as exploitative, corrupt and/or neocolonialistic

fr:Françafrique
fr:Jean Piot (homme politique)


Amherst

The name of the municipality is derived from the English surname Amherst. The town is named after British military officer Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717–1797).

A township municipality of Les Laurentides, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada.


Hippocrate

Borrowed from Latin Hippocratēs, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἱπποκράτης (Hippokrátēs).

serment d’Hippocrate


Ouest

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A department of Haiti. Capital: Port-au-Prince


mer Adriatique

Adriatic Sea (sea that stretches from the Ionian Sea to the Gulf of Venice)


golfe du Mexique

Gulf of Mexico (gulf between USA and Mexico)


Amour

The world's ninth longest river, forming the border between the Far East of Russia and Northeastern China, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin

An oblast in far eastern Russia; its administrative centre is Blagoveshchensk


mer Morte

Dead Sea (a highly saline lake in Israel, Palestine and Jordan)


mer des Caraïbes

la mer des Caraïbes (canonical feminine)

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Meronym: archipel de San Blas

Caribbean Sea (a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere)


Morphée

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús).

(Greek mythology) Morpheus (the Greek god of dreams)


Saragosse

From Old French Sarragoce, ultimately from Latin Caesaraugusta.


Ceylan

Ceylon (the former name of Sri Lanka, an island and country in South Asia)


Pondichéry

Borrowed from Tamil பாண்டிச்சேரி (pāṇṭiccēri).

பாண்டிச்சேரி

Puducherry (a union territory of India, previously called Pondicherry)

Puducherry (the capital and largest city of Puducherry, India, previously called Pondicherry)


Dubaï

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates#English

Dubai (an emirate of the United Arab Emirates)

Dubai (the capital city of Dubai emirate, United Arab Emirates)


Padoue

From Vulgar Latin Patava, Pataua, ultimately from Latin Patavium, the Roman name.

Padua (the capital city of the province of Padua, Veneto, Italy)


Byzance

Borrowed from Latin Byzantium, borrowed from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion).


Denholm

Derived from English Denholm. The municipality is named after the village of Denholm in Scotland.

A municipality of La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada.


Ekrem

Ekrem Akurgal, b. 1911


Éden

(biblical) Eden (garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve)


Fontenay-aux-Roses

The commune name originates from a local stream from a spring (fons, fontaine) in the hillside descending from the Châtillon plateau, with the addition ("of roses") added to distinguish this commune from numerous French communes named Fontenay.

Fontenay-aux-Roses (a town and commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, France)


Grenelle

→ English: Grenelle

→ Russian: Грене́ль (Grenélʹ)

Le pont de Grenelle, construit en bois en 1828, met en conmunication l’ancien Auteuil et l’ancien Grenelle.

1864, Amédée Gayet de Cesena, Le Nouveau Paris:

The bridge of Grenelle, built of wood in 1828, connects the former Auteuil and the former Grenelle.

(historical) Grenelle (a commune of the Seine department, France)

Grenelle (a neighbourhood of Paris, France)


Occitanie

→ English: Occitanie

Occitania (a historical region in Western Europe)

Occitanie (an administrative region in southern France, created in 2016 by the merger of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées)


Toile

Mais ces jugements, rendus longtemps après l’infraction, ne règlent pas la question des dégâts causés en temps réel par les messages haineux sur la Toile.

2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde:


Son Altesse royale

fr-proper noun

Son Altesse royale f (plural Leurs Altesses royales)

His Royal Highness, third person form of address for a high royal

Her Royal Highness, third person form of address for a high royal


îles Mariannes du Nord

îles Mariannes du Nord f pl (plural only)

Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands#English

Northern Mariana Islands (an archipelago and dependent territory of the United States in the Pacific Ocean)


péninsule ibérique

La péninsule ibérique est entourée par la mer Méditerranée au sud et au sud-est, l’océan Atlantique au sud-ouest, à l’ouest et au nord-ouest, et les Pyrénées au nord-est qui séparent l’Espagne de la France.

The Iberian Peninsula is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south and south-east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west, west and north-west, and the Pyrenees to the north-east, which separate Spain from France.


Forêt-Noire

Black Forest (a mountainous region in southwestern Germany)


Timiskaming

The name of the reserve is derived from that of a nearby lake, derived in turn from an Algonquin source.

A Native American reserve in Témiscamingue, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.


Biafra

Biafra (a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria in the late 1960s)


Virgile

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Virgilius, from Latin Vergilius.


Norilsk

Borrowed from Russian Нори́льск (Norílʹsk).

bor+

Holonym: kraï de Krasnoïarsk

Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai#English

Norilsk (a city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia)


Lemaître

English: Lemaitre


Garonne

Inherited from Latin Garumna, Garonna, probably from Gaulish *garunda (“shallows, riverbank”).

der

Garonne (a long river in southwestern France)


Dordogne

Named after the river Dordogne, from Latin Duranius (named by Ausonius).
Folk etymology derives it from two mountain streams, Dor (shortened from mont d’ or (“mountain of gold”) and dogne, from dord (“babbling, muttering”) (imitative) + aven (“river”), though this may have influenced the spelling.

Dordogne (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)

Dordogne (a long river in south-central and southwestern France)


Eschine

Borrowed from Latin Aeschinēs, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Αἰσχίνης (Aiskhínēs).


Sarthe

Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire#English

Sarthe (a department of Pays de la Loire, France)

Sarthe (a right tributary of the Loire, in northwestern France)


Isère

Isère (a left tributary of the Rhône, in southeastern France)

Isère (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)


Gironde

Gironde (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)

Gironde (an estuary in southwestern France)


Poitiers

English: Poitiers

Inherited from Middle French Poictiers, from Old French Peitiers, from Latin Pictāva, Pictāvium, Pictāvis, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region.

Poitiers (a city, the capital of the Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)


Montner

Borrowed from Catalan Montner (literally “black mountain”).

bor+

Montner (a small town and commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia)


Pollestres

Borrowed from Catalan Pollestres, from Latin palūdestris, feminine of palūdester (“swampy, marshy”), from palūs, palūdis (“swamp, marsh”) + -ester.

Pollestres (a town and commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia)


Vingrau

Borrowed from Catalan Vingrau: maybe from vint graons (“twenty steps”), but more probably from the Germanic given name Winigaud or from vin (“wine”) + grau (“degree, grade”).

Vingrau (a small town and commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia)


Baudouin

a male given name, equivalent to English Baldwin or Dutch Boudewijn


Radegonde

From the Germanic given name *Rēdagunþiz, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz (“advice”) and *gunþiz (“battle”).

a female given name from the Germanic languages


Romuald

From the name of a 10th–11th century Italian saint, from Old High German ruom (“fame”) + waltan (“to rule”).


Tanguy

Borrowed from Breton Tangi, from tan (“fire”) + ki (“dog”).


Philibert

From a Germanic given name consisting of Frankish *filu (“many”, from Proto-Germanic *felu) + *berht (“bright”, from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz). The spelling with Ph instead of F is due to influence of the given name Philippe.
Cognates of *berht include English bright and given names containing bert like Robert, Albert, Berthold etc.

af

from Proto-Germanic <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro">*felu</i>

from Proto-Germanic <i class="Latn mention" lang="gem-pro">*berhtaz</i>


Ladislas

a male given name, equivalent to English Ladislaus


VMR

(Quebec) TMR; Ville Mont-Royal—a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada


VSL

(Quebec) VSL ; Ville Saint-Laurent (Ville St-Laurent) — a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada


RDP

(Quebec) Initialism of Rivière-des-Prairies (a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada)


PAT

(Quebec) PAT; Pointe-aux-Trembles—a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada


Alexandrine

a female given name, equivalent to English Alexandrina


Doubs

From Gaulish Dubis, from the root of Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”). Compare Latin Dūbis, Breton du (“black”).

Doubs (a river in France and Switzerland)

Meronyms: Doubien, Doubiste

Doubs (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)


Nîmes

→ English: Nîmes

Previously Nismes, from Middle French Nismes, ultimately from Latin Colonia Nemausus, from the name of a Gaulish god.

Holonym: Gard

Meronyms: Pissevin-Valdegour, Vaquerolles

Nîmes (a city in the Gard department, Occitanie, France)


Montferrer

→ English: Montferrer

/mɔ̃.fɛ.ʁɛʁ/

Montferrer (a village in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, France)

(very rare) a French surname from Catalan


Arles

→ English: Arles

*(Bouches-du-Rhône): Borrowed from Occitan Arle; from Latin Arelate.
*(Pyrénées-Orientales): Borrowed from Catalan Arles; from Latin Arulas.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur#English

Arles (a city in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)


Laëtitia

a female given name, equivalent to English Letitia


SFR

Originally called Société française de radiotéléphonie.


République fédérale d'Allemagne

République fédérale d’ Allemagne (canonical feminine)

Federal Republic of Germany
Federal Republic of Germany#English

Federal Republic of Germany, Germany (a country in Central Europe)

Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany (a former country in Central Europe, existing from 1949 to 1990)


RTM

Réseau de transport métropolitain
w:fr:Réseau de transport métropolitain

Initialism of Réseau de transport métropolitain, a transport agency serving Greater Montreal in Canada, also branded Exo

Réseau de transport métropolitain

Régie de transports métropolitains
w:fr:Régie de transports métropolitains

Initialism of Régie de transports métropolitains, a transport operator serving Marseille

Initialism of Radiodiffusion télévision marocaine.


Lancastre

Lancaster (a city, the county town of Lancashire, England)


Nadejda

Наде́жда Надежда#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Наде́жда (Nadéžda, “hope”)


Slavonie

Slavonia (a geographical region and former kingdom in eastern Croatia)


Perpignan

Inherited from Latin Perpenniānum, from the given name Perpenna, an Etruscan name.

Holonym: Roussillon

Meronyms: Bas-Vernet, Château-Roussillon, Clos Banet, Mailloles, Mas Guérido, Moulin-à-Vent, Saint-Assiscle, Saint-Gaudérique, Saint-Martin

Perpignan (a city in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, France)


Palæstine

Entre austres choses , on y porta devant des escripteaux , où estoyent contenus les noms des nations dont il triumphoit , qui estoyent celles qui s’ensuivent , le royaulme de Pont, l’armenie , la Cappadoice , la Paphlagone , la Medie , la Colchide , les Hiberiens , les Albaniens , la Syrie , la Cilcie , la Mesopotamie , la Phœnicie , la Palæstine , la Judée , l’Arabie , les Coursaires et Escumeurs de mer deffaicts par tous les quartiers du monde , tant par mer que par terre : […]

1784, Jacques Amyot, Œuvres de Plutarque, page #169


tour CN

(Canada) CN Tower, a tourist attraction, radio-television broadcast tower, communications tower, observation tower, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Gange

→ Arabic: الْغَانْج (al-ḡānj)

→ Iranian Persian: گانْژ (gânž)

→ Turkish: Ganj

Borrowed from Latin Gangēs, from Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs), from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”).


Éloi

→ Catalan: Eloi

→ English: Eloi

→ Dutch: Elooi, Looi, Looy

→ Spanish: Eloy, Eloi

→ West Flemish: Looi

From Late Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”).


ENS

(French politics) Abbreviation of Ensemble!, a French left-wing political party.


Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis (the capital and largest city of Réunion, France)

Dominique, gilet jaune de la première à Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), ne manque jamais les manifestations de soignants organisées dans sa ville, chaque mardi devant l’hôpital Delafontaine et chaque jeudi, devant l’hôpital Casanova, car pour lui, "blouses blanches, gilets jaunes, c’est le même combat !"

2020 11 June, Hajera Mohammad, “À Saint-Denis, "blouses blanches et gilets jaunes, c'est le même combat !"”, in France Bleu:

Dominique, a yellow-vest protester from Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) never fails to attend demonstrations in this city, every Tuesday at the Delafontaine hospital and every Thursday at the Casanova hospital, because according to her “white coats, yellow vests, it's all the same fight!”

Saint-Denis (a town and commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Île-de-France, France)


Estienne

a male given name, chiefly obsolete form of Étienne


Évrard

a male given name, equivalent to English Everett or Everard or German Eberhard


Aubin

English: Aubin

From the Latin given name Albinus.
Cognates include Italian and Spanish Albino, English and French Albin.


Loup

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-gare de Lyon-Gorge-de-Loup.wav


Médard

Borrowed from Latin Medardus, which probably has a Germanic origin.
The second part hard- stems from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard, brave”).
The first part is unclear. Theories assume Germanic *mahtiz (“might, power”) as in Mechthild, Germanic *maed (“honour”), Celtic *mat (“good”) and *med (“centre”).
Cognates include Spanish and Italian Medardo.


CCITT

English: CCITT

w:fr:Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique

(telecommunications, initialism) CCITT; Initialism of Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique, called since 1993 ITU-T


Parti conservateur

(Canadian politics) Conservative Party or Conservative party


Nouveau Parti démocratique

New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party

(Canadian politics) New Democratic Party


Bloc

(Canada, politics) Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois)


Montmartre

→ English: Montmartre

→ Russian: Монма́ртр (Monmártr)

A neighbourhood of Paris, Île-de-France, France.


Habacuc

From Latin Habacuc, from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (chavakúk, “Habakkuk”). The name comes either from the Hebrew word חבק (khavák, “embrace”) or else from Akkadian 𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣 (ḫambaqūqu), a kind of plant.

der

Nous ne prétendons pas épuiser ici les problèmes posés par la critique textuelle d’Habacuc.

1944, Paul Humbert, Problèmes du Livre d'Habacuc, page 30:

We do not pretend to exhaust here the problems posed by a textual critique of Habakkuk.

De quel pays était le prophète Habacuc. On n’en sait pas plus sur le prophète Habacuc que sur le prophète Nahum.

1848, Pierre-Daniel Huet, “Le Livres de l'Ancien-Testament sont authentiques: Du Livre du Profete Habacuc”, in Demonstrations Évangéliques, volume V, page 449:


Minitel

Abbreviation of Médium interactif par numérisation d’information téléphonique (“Interactive medium for digitized information by telephone”).

Le Minitel était le premier réseau informatique du monde, créé bien avant Internet (réseau informatique mondial). Au départ, le Minitel était destiné à remplacer l’annuaire téléphonique en papier par l’annuaire électronique, et l’on s’en servait uniquement dans les bureaux de poste.

2009, William Edmiston, Annie Dumenil, La France contemporaine, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 286:


Constantinescu

Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Constantinescu m.


Rachelle

(rare) a female given name, variant of Rachel


Empire romain

/ɑ̃.piʁ‿.ʁɔ.mɛ̃/


Fils

(Christianity) Son, person of the Holy Trinity


Persépolis

Persepolis (ancient ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, in modern Iran)


Vosges

Vosges (a mountain range in eastern France)

Vosges (a department of Grand Est, France)


Pétaouchnock

Timbuktu (an imagined, very distant, place)


Hippolyte

From Latin Hippolytus, from Ancient Greek Ἱππόλυτος (Hippólutos).


Klein

a surname from German, equivalent of the French Petit


Corne de l'Afrique

Corne de l’ Afrique (canonical feminine)


La Rochelle

→ English: La Rochelle, Rochelle

⇒ English: New Rochelle

→ French: New Rochelle → La Nouvelle-Rochelle (calque)

Literally, “the Little Rock”, from Old French rochelle. Equivalent to roche + -elle.

La Rochelle (a port city and commune of the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)


Isa

a diminutive of the female given name Isabelle or of its variant forms, sometimes also used as a formal given name


Isa

Transliteration of Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or anglicized from Turkish İsa, both equivalents of Jesus as a given name.

a male given name from Arabic mainly used by Muslims


Isa

a unisex given name or of its variant forms, sometimes also used as a formal given name


Zemfira

Земфи́ра Земфира#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Земфи́ра (Zemfíra)


Bic

English: Bic


Bich

→ English: Bich

English: Bic

English: bic

Luxembourgish: Bic

Chadian Arabic: بيك (bīk)

Khmer: ប៊ិក (bĭk)

Lao: ບິກ (bik)


Procuste

From Ancient Greek Προκρούστης (Prokroústēs).


Sodome

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).


CNRS

w:Centre national de la recherche scientifique

Initialism of Centre national de la recherche scientifique, a French science agency


Pavie

Pavia (the capital city of the province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy)


Pavie

→ English: Pavie

Pavie (a city in the Gers department, France)


Pavie

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], also from Occitan Pavia (although rare in southern France and nearly absent from Gers). Most prevalent in Seine-Maritime department.


mont Blanc

→ English: Mont Blanc

→ Russian: Монбла́н (Monblán)

Literally, “white mountain”. Cognate to Italian Monte Bianco.


Haydée

— Haydée ! quel adorable nom ! Il y a donc des femmes qui s’appellent véritablement Haydée autre part que dans les poèmes de lord Byron ?
— Certainement ; Haydée est un nom fort rare en France, mais assez commun en Albanie et en Épire ; c’est comme si vous disiez, par exemple, chasteté, pudeur, innocence ; c’est une espèce de nom de baptême, comme disent vos Parisiens.

1845 Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, translated as The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 77

"Haidee -- what an adorable name! Are there, then, really women who bear the name of Haidee anywhere but in Byron’s poems?"
"Certainly there are. Haidee is a very uncommon name in France, but is common enough in Albania and Epirus; it is as it you said, for example, Chastity, Modesty, Innocence, -- it is a kind of baptismal name, as you Parisians call it."


Genk

Genk (a city and municipality of Belgium)


Erdoğan

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Erdoğan.

ubor

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954–), the current President of Turkey.


Sabri

Borrowed from Arabic صَبْرِيّ (ṣabriyy).

Sabri Louatah, b. 1983


Corrèze

Corrèze (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)

Corrèze (a left tributary of the Vézère, in southwestern France)


Creuse

Creuse (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)

Creuse (a right tributary of the Vienne, in southwestern France)


Aube

Aube (a department of Grand Est, France)

Aube (a right tributary of the Seine, in northeastern France)


Indre

Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire#English

Indre (a department of Centre-Val de Loire, France)

Indre (a left tributary of the Loire, in central France)


Alpes-Maritimes

→ English: Alpes-Maritimes

desc

→ Ottoman Turkish: ساحلی آلپ (Sâhılî Alp) (partial calque)

Alpes-Maritimes (a department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)


Drôme

Drôme (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

Drôme (a left tributary of the Rhône, in southeastern France)


Aveyron

Named after the Arve River, of uncertain origin, possibly a Celtic name from Proto-Celtic *garwos (“violent, rough, bumpy”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”). Compare Welsh garw (“rough, bumpy”) and Irish garbh.

der

Aveyron (a department of Occitanie, France)

Aude (a right tributary of the Tarn, in southern France)


Charente

Charente (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)

Charente (a river in southwestern France)


Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

fr-proper noun

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence f pl (plural only)

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (a department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)


Gers

Gers (a department of Occitanie, France)

Gers (a left tributary of the Garonne, in southern France)


Allier

Allier (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

Allier (a left tributary of the Loire, in central France)


Hérault

Found in Latin as Arauris (or Araura by Strabo), the name of a river. The name is sometimes considered Pre-Celtic although the element Ara- suggests a Celtic root.

Hérault (a department of Occitanie, France)


Ariège

The department is named after the river; said to be from Latin aurigera (“bearing gold”), referring to the Gauls' practice of panning gold.

Meronym: Couserans

Ariège (a department of Occitanie, France)

Ariège (a right tributary of the Garonne in Occitanie, France)


Bas-Rhin

Bas-Rhin (a department of Grand Est, France)


Eure

Inherited from Middle French Evreux, from Latin Autricum. The department is named for the river.

Eure (a left tributary of the Seine, in northwestern France)


Aisne

From the Roman name, Latin Acinum, Latinized from the Gaulish river Axona.

Aisne (a department of Hauts-de-France, France)

Aisne (a left tributary of the Oise, in northeastern France)


Essonne

Named after the river, from the Gallo-Roman water goddess, Gaulish and Latin Acionna, Acionnae, of Celtic origin, probably sharing the same Proto-Indo-European source as the river Axona.

Essonne (a department of Île-de-France, France)

Essonne (a left tributary of the Seine, in northern France)


INSEE

w:fr:Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques

Initialism of Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques.


Loiret

Loiret (a department of Centre-Val de Loire, France)

Loiret (a left tributary of the Loire, in central France)


Lozère

Lozère (a department of Occitanie, France)

Mont Lozère (a mountain, the highest peak in the Cévennes mountain range, in southern France)


Nièvre

Nièvre (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

Nièvre (a right tributary of the Loire, in central France)


Yvelines

Yvelines (a department of Île-de-France, France)


Oise

Named after the River Oise, itself from or related to the Roman river name Latin Isara, thus also related to the river Isère.

Oise (a department of Hauts-de-France, France)

Oise (a right tributary of the Seine, in northeastern France and Belgium)


Var

Var (a department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)


Vaucluse

From Latin Vallis Clausa (“closed valley”), from vallis + clausa; compare Occitan Vauclusa.

Vaucluse (a department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)

Vaucluse (a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)


Côtes-d'Armor

Côtes-d’Armor (canonical feminine plural)

Côtes-d'Armor (a department of Brittany, France)


Marne

From Latin Mātrona (“Marne”), from Gaulish *Mātronā, from Proto-Celtic *Mātronā, a derivative of Proto-Celtic *mātīr (“mother”).

Marne (a department of Grand Est, France)

Marne (a right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France)


Asturies

autonomous community
autonomous community

Asturias (an autonomous community and province of Spain)


Shanghaï

Shanghai (a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China, the largest urban area in China)


Montgolfier

English: Montgolfier


Bernon

Bernon (a commune of the department of Aube, Champagne, Grand Est, France)


CCP

w:fr:Certification de conformité produit

Initialism of Certification de conformité produit.


Scud

(colloquial) (figuratively) (From military slang) "Prendre un Scud" (lit. To take a Scud) is to receive a violent, sudden and possibly undeserved reprimand or verbal attack


Klamath

The Klamath (a river in southern Oregon, and northern California)


Mimi

a diminutive of the female given name Marie


Collet

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Nicolas.

a common surname originating as a patronymic


Crimée

→ Persian: کریمه (kerime)


Berry

Inherited from Latin Biturigum, genitive plural of Bituriges, the name of a Celtic tribe. The municipality is named after the Régiment de Berry.

A region and former province in central France.

A municipality of Abitibi, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.


Ægypte

Iſis craignant le rauiſſement de Iupiter, ſ’enfuit en Ægypte :[…]

1628, Sébastien Roulliard, Melun ou l'Histoire de la Ville de Melun, page 32:

Isis, fearing the ravishment of Jupiter, fled to Egypt: […]


Græce

Et Homere recite que les compagnons d’Vlyſſe laiſſerent la Græce pour manger des lottes d’Affrique qui ſont douces comme nos guignes, qui s’y trouuent groſſe & bonnes à cauſe de la chaleur , & qu’on nōme guignes à cauſe de la Guinenee dont elles ſont venuës.

1612, Louis Dorléans, La plante Humaine sur le Trespas du roy Henry le Grand, pages 36–37:


Æthiopie

Cela s’eſprouue tous les iours en la Iudæe , mere des belles palmes , en la Syria & en l’Æthiopie , & aux autres lieux chaux, où ſont les palmes en quantité.

1612, Louis Dorléans, La plante Humaine sur le Trespas du roy Henry le Grand, page 54:

This can be felt every day in Judea, mother of beautiful palms, in Syria and in Ethiopia and other warm places, where one finds palms in great quantity.


Œdipe

Borrowed from Latin Oedipus, from Ancient Greek Οἰδίπους (Oidípous).


Babylone

→ Khmer: បាប៊ីឡូន (baabiiloun)


Polichinelle

→ German: Policinello

→ Polish: poliszynel

→ Portuguese: polichinelo

→ Russian: полишине́ль (polišinélʹ)

→ Spanish: polichinela

→ Ukrainian: полішине́ль (polišynélʹ)

Borrowed from Neapolitan Pulecenella, of uncertain origin (see Italian Pulcinella).

Pulcinella (Italian theatrical character)


Arabie

From Latin Arabia; alternatively from arabe + -ie.


Crète

→ Lao: ກະແລັດ (ka læt)

→ Persian: کرت (keret)


Tonkin

English: Tonkin

From Vietnamese Đông Kinh, a former name for Hanoi. Also see Pékin (“Beijing”) and Nankin (“Nanjing”).

(history) the northern part of Vietnam, a former French colonial region

A gulf in northern Vietnam: the Gulf of Tonkin


Sichem

(historical) Shechem (an ancient city in the southern Levant; modern Nablus)


Sosthène

From Ancient Greek Σωσθένης (Sōsthénēs, “safe in strength”), the name of a Corinth Christian synagogue ruler.


Siméon

From Latin Simeōn, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sumeṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening, listening”).


Philadelphie

Philadelphia (a large city in Pennsylvania, United States)


Philémon

From Ancient Greek Φιλήμων (Philḗmōn), from φιλήμων (philḗmōn, “kindly, affectionate”), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”).


Melchisédek

(biblical) Melchizedek (king, priest, and contemporary of Abraham)


Syrte

English: Syrte

From Latin Syrtis, from Ancient Greek Σύρτις (Súrtis), q.v.


Lazare

Borrowed from Late Latin Lazarus, from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος (Lázaros), the New Testament Greek form of Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר (ʾelʿāzār, literally “God has helped”). Doublet of ladre.


Narcisse

From Latin Narcissus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Νάρκισσος (Nárkissos).


Loïs

a male given name, variant of Lois, Loïc, or Louis; also in Flemish


Pentecôte

→ Turkish: pankot

Borrowed from Late Latin pentēcostē, from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστή (pentēkostḗ, “fiftieth (day)”).

Pentecost, Whitsunday (Whit Sunday, Whitsun)


Pâque

Inherited from Ecclesiastical Latin pascha.

inh+

(Christianity) Passover (Christian holiday)