Surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
França
“the Franks”
França is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
França goes back to Latin Francī, meaning “the Franks.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
França comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese França, from Late Latin Francia, from Latin Francī (“the Franks”), from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
França’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, França as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Frância.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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