Artois

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Proper noun

Artois

  1. A former region in 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.

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French

Artois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French Arteis, from Latin Atrebates (pagus Atrebatensis), from Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (inhabitants), from *treb (home, building), see also Middle Breton treff (city), Welsh tref (town) and Old Irish treb (farm, building), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (settlement) (same source as Old English þorp (village), Lithuanian troba (house), and Provencal trevar (to live in a village or house)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (inhabitant).

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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 of the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now northern France

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