Languedoc

Meanings

Proper Noun

• former province France (country), in the south of the country; since 2016, part of the region of Occitanie.

Adjective

• Pertaining to the Occitan language: Provençal, related to Catalan.

Origin

• Borrowed from French Languedoc, from langue d'oc, from Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari eloquentia, where he wrote in Latin: “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” (‘some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl’). Based on the Occitan word òc, in contrast to Old French oil (now French oui).