Artois
English
editProper noun
editArtois
- A former region in France; since 2016, part of the region of Hauts-de-France.
- A census-designated place in Glenn County, California, United States.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French Arteis, from Latin Atrebates (pagus Atrebatensis), from Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *treb (“home, building”), see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”) and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Provencal trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editArtois m
- (historical) a former county of the Kingdom of France, in what is now northern France
- (historical) a former state of the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now northern France
Derived terms
editCategories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Historical and traditional regions
- en:Places in France
- en:Census-designated places in California, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in California, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Places in Hauts-de-France
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French terms with historical senses