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París

/paˈɾis/

proper noun/paˈɾis/

Paris (the capital and largest city of France); Paris (a department of France); the letter P in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Borrowed from Old French Paris, from Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum "Lutetia of the Parisii", from Latin Parisiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Proto-Celtic *par (“boat”).