Loara

Borrowed from French Loire, from Latin Liger, Ligerim, itself a transcription of the native Gaulish name of the river, from Gaulish *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔˈa.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: Lo‧a‧ra

Loara f

1. Loire (the longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique)
2. Loire (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

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