Artois

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Artois.

Proper noun

Artois

1. A geographic region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the region of Hauts-de-France.
   • 1882, Francisque Michel, A Critical Inquiry Into the Scottish Language with the View of Illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland, page 61:

     The chestnut was chestan ( O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois.

2. A census-designated place in Glenn County, California, United States.

Anagrams

• à trois, Oirats, aorist, aristo, ratios, aristo-, Sirota, raotis, satori, Rosati

French

Artois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French Arteis, from Latin Atrebatēs (pagus Atrebatensis), referring to a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.twa/

Proper noun

Artois m

1. (historical) a former county of the Kingdom of France, in what is now northern France
2. (historical) a former state in the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now northern France

Derived terms

• artésien
• Artésien