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Toulon

/tu.lɔ̃/

proper noun/tu.lɔ̃/

Toulon (a city, the prefecture of Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)

Related: toulonnais, Toulonnais

From the Roman name, Latin Telō Mārtius. The first word could be from Telo, a Celtic spring deity, from Proto-Celtic *telo (“water hole, spring”), or from the obsolete tol (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *tullon, *tullos (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”) (Welsh twll, Breton toull, Irish toll).