França
Catalan
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Francia (“country of the Franks”).
Pronunciation
Old Galician-Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɾant͡sa/
Descendants
- Portuguese: França
Further reading
Portuguese

bandeira da França
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾɐ̃.sɐ/
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
- Hyphenation: Fran‧ça
Usage notes
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.
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