Calais

Meaning

Proper Noun

• city Pas-de-Calais (department) Hauts-de-France (region) France (country).
• city Maine (state)

Origin

• From French Calais and Middle English Caleys (from Anglo-Norman Caleis), from the Roman name, Latin Caletum, named after the Caleti, a Gaulish tribe in the area, from Proto-Celtic *kaletos, from Proto-Indo-European *kal-. The placename is cognate with Breton calet, Middle Irish calath, and calad.