Artois

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Proper noun

Artois

  1. A former region in France; since 2016, part of the region of Hauts-de-France.
  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”).

Pronunciation

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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