loire
/ˈlwɑː(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique.
name
A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Saint-Étienne.
Etymology
From French Loire, from Latin Liger, itself borrowed from the native Gaulish name of the river, from *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”) (see also French lie, English lees), from Proto-Celtic *legyā, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), the same source as many words in English such as lie, ledge, etc.
Origin
- Source language: French