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Paris

/pa.ʁi/

proper noun/pa.ʁi/

Paris (the capital and largest city of France); Paris (a department of Île-de-France, France)

Paris est beaucoup moins bruyant en étéParis is much less noisy in summer

Synonyms: Paname

Inherited from Old French Paris, from Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lūtētia Parīsiōrum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe.

proper noun/pa.ʁi/

a common surname

Partially from Occitan París and most generally from a variant of the given name Patrice; ultimately from Latin Patricius.