Nantes

See also: nantes

English

Etymology

From French Nantes.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nɑːnts/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Proper noun

Nantes

The prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany.
A municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
A municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Translations

a city in western France

Breton: Naoned (br)
Catalan: Nantes f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 南特 (zh) (Nántè)
French: Nantes (fr) f
Galician: Nantes (gl)
Gallo: Naunnt
German: Nantes (de) n
Macedonian: Нант m (Nant)
Occitan: Nantas f
Old Norse: Namsborg f
Portuguese: Nantes (pt) f
Romanian: Nantes (ro)
Russian: Нант (ru) m (Nant)

Anagrams

anenst, annets, tensan

Catalan

Proper noun

Nantes f

Nantes (the prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany)

French

Etymology

From Latin Portus Namnetum, from the name of the Namnetes, a local Gaulish tribe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nɑ̃t/
Audio (Paris): (file)

Proper noun

Nantes ?

Nantes (the prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany)

Derived terms

nantais, Nantais

Anagrams

ansent, tannes

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃis/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃiʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnɐ̃.tes/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnɐ̃.tɨʃ/

Hyphenation: Nan‧tes

Proper noun

Nantes ?

Nantes (the prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany)
Nantes (a municipality of the state of São Paulo, Brazil)