Meaning

noun the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

noun sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae

noun (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War

originFrom Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.

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