Dictionaries › English

Paris

Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹɪs/

The English word “Paris” has 11 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. A department of Île-de-France, France.
  2. The government of France.
  3. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County and Jennings County, Indiana.
  4. An unincorporated community in Linn County, Iowa.
  5. An unincorporated community in Green Charter Township, Mecosta County, Michigan.
  6. An unincorporated community in the towns of Dummer and Stark, Coos County, New Hampshire.
  7. An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon; named for postmaster G. E. Parris.
  8. An unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia.
  9. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Paris Township.
  10. A community in Ontario; named for nearby gypsum deposits, used to make plaster of Paris (itself named for the city).
  11. A Trojan prince who eloped with Helen.

Etymology

From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “Paris” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.