Saint-Malo
See also: St. Malo
English
Proper noun
Saint-Malo
- A walled port city in Ille-et-Vilaine department, on the north coast of Brittany, France.
- A municipality in Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Estrie, Quebec, Canada, on the border with the United States, named after Saint-Malo in France.
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Translations
city in Brittany
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French
Etymology
Said to be named after Saint Malo of Wales, whose name could be from Old Breton machlou, from mach (“hostage, warrant”) + lou (“beautiful, bright, brilliant”) (probably from the same source as Gaulish leux (“light, brilliance”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛ̃.ma.lo/
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Proper noun
- Saint-Malo (a city in Brittany, France)
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References
- ^ Léon Fleuriot, Les Origines de la Bretagne, ed. Payot, 1982, p. 150 and 281