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François

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //fɹænswɑ//
  • //ˈfrɒ̃swɑː//

A male given name from French, equivalent to English Francis.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from French, equivalent to English Francis.

  2. 2

    A surname originating as a patronymic.

Etymology

Borrowed from French François, from Medieval Latin Franciscus (from Francia + -iscus).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).