Poictiers

Middle French

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /pwɛˈtjer(s)/

Proper noun

Poictiers m

  1. 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
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