Artois

English

Proper noun

Artois

1. A former region in 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 Atrebates (pagus Atrebatensis), from Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *treb (“home, building”), see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”) and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Provencal trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”).

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 of the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now northern France

Derived terms

• artésien
• Artésien