Lotharingie

Inherited from Middle French Lotharingie, borrowed from Medieval Latin Lotharingia, from Lōtharingus (“a member of the dynasty or of the people of King Lothair II; a Lotharing, a Lotharian”) + -ia (suffix forming country names). By surface analysis, Lotharinge +‎ -ie.

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.ta.ʁɛ̃.ʒi/

Lotharingie f

1. (historical) Lotharingia (a historical region, early medieval kingdom and former duchy in Western Europe; a successor kingdom of the Carolingian empire, now politically split between Lorraine in France, western Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg)

• → Iranian Persian: لوتارنَژی (lotâranži)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Lotharingia, from Lōtharingus (“a member of the dynasty or of the people of King Lothair II; a Lotharing, a Lotharian”) + -ia (suffix forming country names). By surface analysis, Lotharinge +‎ -ie.

Lotharingie f

1. (historical) Lotharingia (a historical region, early medieval kingdom and former duchy in Western Europe; a successor kingdom of the Carolingian empire, now politically split between Lorraine in France, western Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg)
   • 1531, Illustrations de la Gaulle belgique, folio lxxxi recto:

     Gothelõ le duc de Lotharingie impetra la duche a lempereur

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• French: Lotharingie
  • → Iranian Persian: لوتارنَژی (lotâranži)