région
French
noun
Definitions
- region; area
- a political subdivision of France and some other Francophone countries, bigger than a département
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regiō.
Origin
Latin
regiō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- regional English
- regiō Latin
- subregio Latin
- Region German
- rione Italian
- interrégional French
- régional French
- régionalement French
- régionaliser French
- región Spanish, Castilian
- *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- region Norwegian Bokmål
- regional Norwegian Bokmål
- região Portuguese
- region Norwegian Nynorsk
- regional Norwegian Nynorsk
- region Danish
- region Serbo-Croatian
- регион Serbo-Croatian
- rexión Galician
- regiune Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- region Middle French
- region Occitan
- regjon Friulian
- rejon Venetian
- regiun xno
- raion Ladin
- rechión Aragonese
- reezõ Moore