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 located primarily in Western Europe)

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Francia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʁansɒ/

Proper noun

França f

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin Francia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɾant͡sa/

Proper noun

França

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

Descendants

  • Portuguese: França

Further reading

Portuguese

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 (plural Franças)

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe; official name: República Francesa; capital and largest city: Paris)

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.

See also

Proper noun

França m or f by sense

  1. a surname