région
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin regiōnem. Compare the inherited Old French reiun, rëon, royon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]région f (plural régions)
- region; area
- a political subdivision of France and some other Francophone countries, bigger than a département
Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: regiune
Further reading
[edit]- “région”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.