langue d'oc

[lahng dawk]

noun

1. the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.

langue d'oc

/ lɑ̃ɡ dɔk /

noun

1. the group of medieval French dialects spoken in S France: often regarded as including Provençal Compare langue d'oïl

Word History and Origins

Origin of langue d'oc¹

1700–10; < French: language of oc, yes < Latin hōc ( ille fēcit ) this (he did); Occitan

Word History and Origins

Origin of langue d'oc¹

literally: language of oc (the Provençal form for yes ), ultimately from Latin hoc this

Example Sentences

The name is a play on “langue d’Oc,” the ancient language of Occitania in southern France and the name of the Languedoc region.

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The local chefs say the recipe's name comes from the word "truffe," which meant potato in Langue d'Oc, a dialect spoken in the southern half of the country in medieval France.

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Even Saracenic elements were not wanting to make up the strange admixture of races which rendered the citizen of Narbonne or Marseilles so different a being from the inhabitant of Paris—quite as different as the Langue d’Oc from the Langue d’Oyl.

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Here we came upon the first traces--a Spanish pedler, a Navarrese bonnet--of that strange borderland between Spain and Western France in which three languages and a dozen patois, French, Spanish, Basque, the Langue d'Oc, the Langue d'Or, and Gascon and Proven�al and the tongue of Andorra, and I know not what others, are fighting for the mastery: where two great nations now peaceably march, dividing between them the wild country where the kingdom of Navarre once sat enthroned on hills with the free Basque communities about her.

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For their language, the langue d'oui, see under Langue d'oc.

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