França

See also: franca and Franca

Catalan

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Francia (“country of the Franks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɾan.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɾan.sa]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ansa

Proper noun

França f

1. France (a country in Western Europe)

Related terms

• Alts de França
• francès (“French, Frenchman”), (Valencian) francés (“French, Frenchman”)
• Illa de França

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Francia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʁansɒ/

Proper noun

França f

1. France (a country in Western Europe)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin Francia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɾant͡sa/

Proper noun

França

1. France (a country in Western Europe)

Related terms

• franco
• frances

Descendants

• Portuguese: França

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "França"

Portuguese

bandeira da França

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese França (“France”), from Late Latin Francia (“France”), from Latin Francī (“the Franks”), the nominative plural of Francus, from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Doublet of Frância.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɐ̃.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
• Hyphenation: Fran‧ça

Proper noun

França f

1. France (a country in Western Europe; official name: República Francesa)

Usage notes

França belongs to a small group of place names (along with Espanha, Inglaterra and Itália) which can be used without the definite article when governed by a preposition: Viveu muito tempo em França.

Related terms

• francês

Proper noun

França m or f by sense

1. a surname