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English
Etymology
From French Nîmes.
Proper noun
Nîmes
- A city in Occitanie, southern France, the capital of the department of Gard, formerly in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon.
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French
Etymology
Previously Nismes, from Middle French Nismes, ultimately from Latin Colonia Nemausus, from the name of a Gaulish god.
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Proper noun
Nîmes f
- Nîmes (a city in the Gard department, Occitanie, France)
- Holonym: Gard
- Meronyms: Pissevin-Valdegour, Vaquerolles
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