Loire

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French Loire.

Proper noun

Loire

1. the longest river in France
2. one of the départements of Rhône-Alpes, France

Translations

river

• Armenian: Լուարա (Luara)
• Breton: Liger
• Catalan: Loira m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: Loira f
• Danish: Loire
• French: Loire (fr) f
• Georgian: ლუარა (luara)
• German: Loire (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Loira
• Japanese: ロワール (Rowāru)
• Latin: Liger (la) m
• Marathi: ल्वार f (lvāra)
• Occitan: Léger
• Polish: Loara (pl) f
• Portuguese: Loire m, Líger m
• Russian: Луа́ра (ru) f (Luára)
• Spanish: Loira
• Ukrainian: Луа́ра (Luára)

département

• German: Loire (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Occitan: Léger

Anagrams

• Le Roi, LeRoi, Leroi, Lorie, oiler, oriel, reoil

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French

Etymology

From Latin Liger, Ligerim, itself a transcription of the native Gaulish name of the river, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *liga "silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium" (see also French lie, English lees), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), the same source as many words in English such as lie, ledge, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lwaʁ/

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Proper noun

Loire f

1. Loire

Derived terms

• Haute-Loire
• ligérien
• Loire-Atlantique
• Maine-et-Loire

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Loire m

1. Loire (a river in France)