Artois
French
Etymology
From Old French Arteis, from Latin Atrebates (pagus Atrebatensis), from Atrebates, a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul, from Proto-Celtic *ad-treb-a-t-es (“inhabitants”), from *treb (“home, building”), see also Middle Breton treff (“city”), Welsh tref (“town”) and Old Irish treb (“farm, building”), all from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (“settlement”) (same source as Old English þorp (“village”), Lithuanian troba (“house”), and Provencal trevar (“to live in a village or house”)). See also Old Irish aittrebaid (“inhabitant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʁ.twa/
Proper noun
Artois
- (historical) A former county of the Kingdom of France, in what is now north-eastern France
- (historical) A former state of the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now north-eastern France
Derived terms
- artésien
- Artésien