Nîmes

See also: nimes and Nimes

English

Etymology

From French Nîmes.

Proper noun

Nîmes

1. A city in Occitanie, southern France, the capital of the department of Gard, formerly in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon.

Translations

city in France

• Catalan: Nimes
• French: Nîmes (fr)
• Occitan: Nimes (oc)
• Spanish: Nimes

Anagrams

• minse, mines, miens, Meins

French

Etymology

Previously Nismes, from Middle French Nismes, ultimately from Latin Colonia Nemausus, from the name of a Gaulish god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nim/

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Proper noun

Nîmes f

1. Nîmes (a city in the Gard department, Occitanie, France)

   Holonym: Gard

   Meronyms: Pissevin-Valdegour, Vaquerolles

Descendants

• → English: Nîmes

Further reading

• Géoportail, Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière, 2019