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Pyrénées

/pi.ʁe.ne/

proper noun/pi.ʁe.ne/

Pyrenees (a mountain range between France and Spain)

Synonyms: monts Pyrénées

Related: angélique des Pyrénées, Basses-Pyrénées, chardon bleu des Pyrénées, chêne des Pyrénées, cochléaire des Pyrénées, colchique des Pyrénées, cranson des Pyrénées, faux-pissenlit des Pyrénées, fritillaire des Pyrénées, Hautes-Pyrénées

Inherited, through ellipsis, from Middle French montaignes Pyrenees f pl (literally “Pyrenean mountains”), itself a partial calque of Latin Pȳrēnaeī montēs m pl, itself a partial calque of Ancient Greek Πυρηναῖα ὄρη n pl (Purēnaîa órē). By surface analysis, pyrénée (adjective) + -s.