What does Paris mean?

Answer 1

PARIS (1)

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: ????? (Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: PAR-is (English) [key]

Meaning unknown. In Greek mythology he was the Trojan prince who kidnapped Helen and began the Trojan War. Though presented as a somewhat of a coward in the 'Iliad', he did manage to slay the great hero Achilles. He was himself eventually slain in battle by Philoctetes.

PARIS (2)

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Various

Pronounced: PAR-is [key]

From the name of the capital city of France, which got its name from the ancient Celtic tribe known as the Parisii.

Source: Behind the Name

Answer 2

Paris is a French name, which actually is an Old French variation of Patrice. It became associated with the Trojan prince Paris in Homer's Iliad. Its origins are from the Latin Patricius which means 'son of noble father.'

The name Paris derives from that of its inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii. The city was called Lutetia(more fully, Lutetia Parisiorum, "Lutetia of the Parisii"), during the first- to sixth-century Roman occupation, but during the reign of Julian the Apostate (360-363) the city was renamed Paris.

Others consider that the name of the Parisii tribe comes from the Celtic Gallic word parisio meaning "the working people" or "the craftsmen." Since the early 20th century, Paris has been known as Paname, a slang name that has been regaining favor with young people in recent years.

Paris has many nicknames, but its most famous is "La Ville-Lumière" (literally, "The Light City"; although most often translated as "The City of Lights" or as "The City of Light"), a name it owes both to its fame as a centre of education and ideas and its early adoption of street lighting.

Paris' inhabitants are known in English as "Parisians" and in French as Parisiens. Parisians are often pejoratively calledParigots (term first used in 1900 by those living outside the Paris region, but now the term may be considered endearing by Parisians themselves.

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Answer 3

When the Romans arrived, the island town of LUTETIA was occupied by a tribe called the PARISII. We know only thelatinised versions of these names, because the Gals weren't much for writing things down. The town in Gallo-Roman towns was known as LUTETIA PARISIORUM, and gradually the beginning and end of the name dropped away to leave is with PARIS.

Answer 4

PARIS (1)

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: ÃŽ ÃŽÂ±ÃÂÃŽÂ¹Ãâ€š (Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: PAR-is (English) [key]

Meaning unknown. In Greek mythology he was the Trojan prince who kidnapped Helen and began the Trojan War. Though presented as a somewhat of a coward in the 'Iliad', he did manage to slay the great hero Achilles. He was himself eventually slain in battle by Philoctetes.

PARIS (2)

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Various

Pronounced: PAR-is [key]

From the name of the capital city of France, which got its name from the ancient Celtic tribe known as the Parisii.

Source: Behind the Name

Answer 5

The original Roman town was Lutetia (also Lutetia Parisiorum and Lucotecia), and later Lutèce in French.

Answer 6

Paris was called Lutetia at the time of the Roman Empire.

Answer 7

the city of Paris was named after the Gaulish tribe of the "Parisii" living there around the last century BC and the first century AD.

Answer 8

Paris was initially called Lutetia Parisiorum (Lutetia of the Parisii), by the Romans after the inhabitants the Parisii. Sometime in the 4th century this name was changed to Paris .

Answer 9

Lutetia Parisiorum, the Romans called it. Presumably the Gaulish name was something like Lutetia.