English Explanatory Dictionary

Paris

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The capital and largest city of France.
  2. A department of Île-de-France, France.
  3. The government of France.
  4. A locale named after the French city.
  5. A hamlet in Jutland, Denmark.
  6. A hamlet in New Valley, Egypt.
  7. A former settlement in Yukon, Canada.
  8. A former settlement in Kiritimati, Kiribati.
  9. A locale in the United States.
  10. A city in Arkansas, United States and one of the two county seats of Logan County.
  11. A city, the county seat of Bear Lake County, Idaho.
  12. A city, the county seat of Edgar County, Illinois.
name
  1. A Trojan prince who eloped with Helen.
  2. A male given name from Ancient Greek, from the Trojan hero.
name
  1. A French surname originating as a patronymic, ultimately from Latin Patricius.
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  1. An English surname of Celtic origin, a variant of Parris.
name
  1. A Belgian surname, a variant of Parys.
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  1. A Sicilian surname, a variant of Parigi.
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  1. A Spanish surname, a variant of Aparicio.

Pronunciation

/ˈpæɹ.ɪs/ /ˈpɛɹ.ɪs/ en-us-Paris.ogg En-Paris.ogg /pəˈri/

Word forms

Paris Paree Parish Parris Parrish Pares Parise Pariset Parez Paresse Parisot Pariseau Parizeau de Paris Parizot Parizet

Etymology

From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.

Derived words

New Paris Paris daisy Paris green Parisian Parisianism parisite Paris line Paris of the East Paris syndrome Paristan Paris tea Paris white plaster of Paris plaster-of-Paris South Paris West Paris Paris-Trousseau syndrome

Translations

Afrikaans: Parys Akan: Paris Albanian: Paris Amharic: ፓሪስ Amharic: ፓሪ Antillean Creole: Pawi Arabic: بَارِيس Arabic: بَارِيز Arabic: باريس Arabic: پاريس Aragonese: París Armenian: Փարիզ Asturian: París Azerbaijani: Paris Azerbaijani: Parij Bashkir: Париж Basque: Paris Belarusian: Пары́ж Bengali: প্যারিস Breton: Pariz Bulgarian: Пари́ж Bulgarian: Па́рис Burmese: ပါရီ Catalan: París Chechen: Париж Chinese Cantonese: 巴黎 Eastern Min Chinese: 巴黎 Hakka Chinese: 巴黎 Chinese: 巴黎 Chinese Mandarin: 巴黎 Chinese Mandarin: 帕里斯 Wu Chinese: 巴黎 Chuvash: Парис Cornish: Paris Corsican: Parighji Corsican: Parigi Corsican: Pariggi Crimean Tatar: Paris Czech: Paříž Danish: Paris Dutch: Parijs Esperanto: Parizo Estonian: Pariis Farefare: Pari Faroese: París Finnish: Pariisi French: Paris West-Frisian: Parys Galician: París
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