Artois

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Artois.

Proper noun

Artois

  1. A geographic region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the region of Hauts-de-France.
    • 1882, Francisque Michel, A Critical Inquiry Into the Scottish Language with the View of Illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland, page 61:
      The chestnut was chestan ( O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois.
  2. A census-designated place in Glenn County, California, United States.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French Arteis, from Latin Atrebatēs (pagus Atrebatensis), referring to a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁ.twa/

Proper noun

Artois m

  1. (historical) a former county of the Kingdom of France, in what is now northern France
  2. (historical) a former state in the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now northern France

Derived terms