França
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bandeira da França
Catalan
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Francia (“country of the Franks”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
França f
- France (a country in Western Europe)
Related terms
- Alts de França
- francès (“French, Frenchman”), (Valencian) francés (“French, Frenchman”)
- Illa de França
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin Francia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
França f
- France (a country in Western Europe)
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
França
- France (a country in Western Europe)
Related terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: França
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese França (“France”), from Late Latin Francia (“France”), from Latin Francī (“the Franks”), the nominative plural of Francus, from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Doublet of Frância.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
- Hyphenation: Fran‧ça
Proper noun
França f
- France (a country in Western Europe; official name: República Francesa)
Usage notes
França belongs to a small group of place names (along with Espanha, Inglaterra and Itália) which can be used without the definite article when governed by a preposition: Viveu muito tempo em França.
Related terms
See also
- (countries of Europe) países da Europa; Albânia, Alemanha, Andorra, Arménia/Armênia (Brazil), Áustria, Azerbaijão, Bélgica, Bielorrússia, Bósnia-Herzegovina/Bósnia e Herzegovina (Brazil), Bulgária, Cazaquistão, Chipre, Cidade do Vaticano, Croácia, Dinamarca, Eslováquia, Eslovénia/Eslovênia (Brazil), Espanha, Estónia/Estônia (Brazil), Finlândia, França, Geórgia, Grécia, Hungria, Irlanda, Islândia, Itália, Letónia/Letônia (Brazil), Liechtenstein, Lituânia, Luxemburgo, Macedónia do Norte/Macedônia do Norte (Brazil), Malta, Moldávia, Mónaco/Mônaco (Brazil), Montenegro, Noruega, Países Baixos, Polónia/Polônia (Brazil), Portugal, Reino Unido, República Checa/República Tcheca (Brazil), Roménia/Romênia (Brazil), Rússia, San Marino, Sérvia, Suécia, Suíça, Turquia, Ucrânia (Category: pt:Countries in Europe)
Proper noun
França m or f by sense
- a surname