Poictiers
Appearance
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French Peitiers, from Latin Pictāva, Pictāvium, Pictāvis, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region. (Respelled to be closer to the Latin spelling.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Poictiers m
- Poitiers (a city in France)
- 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:
- Lors dist Pantagruel, pleut à dieu que chascun, de vous eussent deux paires de sonnettes de sacre au menton, & que ie eusse au mien les grosses horologes de Renes, de Poictiers, de Tours, & de Cambray, pour veoir l'aubade que nous donnerions au remuement de noz badigoinces
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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