Loire

English

Etymology

From French Loire, from Latin Liger, itself borrowed from the native Gaulish name of the river, from *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”) (see also French lie, English lees), from Proto-Celtic *legyā, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), the same source as many words in English such as lie, ledge, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlwɑː(ɹ)/, /ləˈwɑː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Proper noun

Loire

2. The longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique.
4. A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Saint-Étienne.

Derived terms

• Maine-et-Loire

Translations

river

• Arabic: لوار f (lwār)
• Armenian: Լուարա (Luara)
• Breton: Liger (br), Loer, Loar, Rivier-Naoned
• Bulgarian: Лоа́ра f (Loára)
• Catalan: Loira m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盧瓦爾河 / 卢瓦尔河 (zh) (Lúwǎ'ěr hé)

• Corsican: Loira f
• Czech: Loira (cs) f
• Danish: Loire
• Dutch: Loire f or m
• Franco-Provençal: Lêre
• French: Loire (fr) f
• Georgian: ლუარა (luara)
• German: Loire (de) f
• Italian: Loira f
• Japanese: ロワール (Rowāru)
• Latin: Liger (la) m
• Marathi: ल्वार f (lvār)
• Occitan: Léger m, Leir m
• Polish: Loara (pl) f
• Portuguese: Loire m, Líger m
• Romanian: Loara f
• Russian: Луа́ра (ru) f (Luára)
• Spanish: Loira
• Turkish: Loire
• Ukrainian: Луа́ра (Luára)

department

• Bulgarian: Лоа́р m (Loár)
• Franco-Provençal: Lêre
• French: Loire (fr) f
• German: Loire (de)
• Occitan: Léger
• Polish: Loara (pl) f
• Spanish: Loira

Anagrams

• reoil, El Rio, oiler, Lorie, Le Roi, Leroi, oriel, LeRoi, re-oil, Oriel

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin Liger, itself borrowed from the native Gaulish name of the river, from *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”) (see also French lie, English lees), from Proto-Celtic *legyā, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), the same source as many words in English such as lie, ledge, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lwaʁ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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• Homophones: loir, loirs

Proper noun

Loire f

1. Loire (the longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique)
2. Loire (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

Derived terms

• Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire
• Cosne-sur-Loire
• Haute-Loire
• La Celle-sur-Loire
• Loire-Atlantique
• Maine-et-Loire
• Pays de la Loire
• Tracy-sur-Loire
• Val de Loire

Related terms

• ligérien

Descendants

• → Catalan: Loira
• → English: Loire
• → Polish: Loara
• → Spanish: Loira

German

Alternative forms

• Liger (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo̯aːr/, [loˈaː(ɐ̯)]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

die Loire f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Loire)

1. Loire (the longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Loire m

1. Loire (the longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique)
2. Loire (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)