Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Francia (“country of the Franks”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfɾan.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfɾan.sa]

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• Rhymes: -ansa

França f

1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

• Alts de França
• francès (“French, Frenchman”), (Valencian) francés (“French, Frenchman”)
• Illa de França

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Francia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʁansɒ/

França f

1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

Inherited from Latin Francia.

• IPA^(key): /fɾant͡sa/

França

1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

• franco
• frances

• Portuguese: França

• Universo Cantigas - "França"

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese França (“France”), from Late Latin Francia (“France”), from Latin Francī (“the Franks”), the nominative plural of Francus, from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Doublet of Frância.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
• Hyphenation: Fran‧ça

França f

1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe; official name: República Francesa; capital and largest city: Paris)

França belongs to a small group of place names (along with Espanha, Inglaterra and Itália) which can be used without the definite article when governed by a preposition: Viveu muito tempo em França.

• francês

França m or f by sense

1. a surname