Franca

See also: franca and França

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Franca (disambiguation)

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan, Italian and Spanish Franca or, alternatively, from Portuguese França.

Proper noun

Franca (plural Francas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Franca is the 38155^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 581 individuals. Franca is most common among White (76.59%) and Hispanic/Latino (13.77%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Franca”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 596.

Albanian

Proper noun

Franca

1. definite nominative singular of Francë

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfˠɾˠaŋkə]

Noun

Franca m pl

1. vocative plural of Franc

Mutation

Mutated forms of Franca

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Franca	Fhranca	bhFranca

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Franca

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Feminine form of Franco.

Proper noun

Franca f

1. a female given name

Proper noun

Franca m or f by sense

1. a surname originating as a matronymic

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frankō, from Proto-Germanic *frankô. Related to Frankish *Franko, Old High German Franko (German Franke), Old Norse Frakki (Icelandic Frakki), Latin francus (Old French franc).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɑn.kɑ/, [ˈfrɑŋ.kɑ]

Proper noun

Franca m

1. Frank, Frenchman
2. (in the plural) the Franks
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCLXXX Hēr Ealdsexe ⁊ Francan ġefuhton.

     Year 780 In this year the Saxons and French fought.

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm...

     Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	Franca	Francan
accusative	Francan	Francan
genitive	Francan	Francena
dative	Francan	Francum

Derived terms

• Francena rīċe
• Francland
• Francrīċe
• Frenċisċ

Descendants

• Middle English: Frank
  • English: Frank

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɐ̃.kɐ/

Proper noun

Franca

1. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil