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Nantes

/nɑ̃t/

proper noun/nɑ̃t/

Nantes (the prefecture of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany)

Related: nantais, Nantais

From Latin Portus Namnetum, from the name of the Namnetes, a local Gaulish tribe.