París

See also: paris, Paris, parís, Páris, Parìs, pāris, and päris

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾis/ [paˈɾis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: Pa‧rís

Proper noun

París ?

1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈɾis]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈɾis]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Proper noun

París m

1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)

Derived terms

• parisenc

Faroese

Proper noun

París m

1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)

Galician

Alternative forms

• Paris (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾis/ [paˈɾis̺]
• Rhymes: -is
• Hyphenation: Pa‧rís

Proper noun

París ?

1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)

Derived terms

• parisiense

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰaːriːs/
• Rhymes: -aːriːs

  Homophone: parís

Etymology 1

Proper noun

París f (proper noun, genitive singular Parísar)

1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)

Declension

Declension of París (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	París
accusative	París
dative	París
genitive	Parísar

Etymology 2

Proper noun

París m (proper noun, genitive singular Parísar)

1. (Greek mythology) Paris

Declension

Declension of París (sg-only masculine)

indefinite singular
nominative	París
accusative	París
dative	París, Parísi
genitive	Parísar

Anagrams

• spíra

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈris/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

París m or f

1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)

Etymology 2

Restituted from French Paris. Most generally from a variant of the given name Patrici; ultimately from Latin Patricius.

Proper noun

París m or f

1. a surname

Descendants

• → French: Paris (surname)

Further reading

• Michel Grosclaude (2003), Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille gascons (in French), Orthez: Per Noste, →ISBN, page 205

Portuguese

Proper noun

París f

1. prescribed spelling of Paris under the Orthographic Agreement of 1931, which was not effectively implemented

Usage notes

París and Jesús, due to their spellings being “hard to change”, were declared exceptions to the rule of writing oxytone proper nouns with final ⟨z⟩.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French Paris, from Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum "Lutetia of the Parisii", from Latin Parisiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Proto-Celtic *par (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾis/ [paˈɾis]
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: Pa‧rís
• Homophone: parís

Proper noun

París

1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)
2. Paris (a department of France)
3. the letter P in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Derived terms

• parisiense
• parisino
• verde de París
• verde París
• verde-París

Paronyms

• Paris (“Paris (Trojan prince)”)

Further reading

• “París”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• pisar
• prisa