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OProv

OProv is the abbreviation of Old Provençal.

Meaning of Old Provençal

Proper noun

Old Provençal

  1. (dated) Romance language spoken in the south of France which is considered the origin of modern Provençal, also known as Occitan.
    • The old Provençal tongue, beloved of knights and troubadours, and forever associated in our minds with romance and chivalry, had become so debased by low singers of tavern songs, that its poetry was only “a riot of coarse speech, which had slain modesty in the ears of the young.”1872, Edward Everett Hale, editor, Old and New, volume VI, page 471
    Synonyms:
    Old Occitan

Questions about OProv

What is OProv the abbreviation of?
OProv is the abbreviation of Old Provençal.

Words near OProv in the dictionary

  1. oprichniks
  2. oprichnina
  3. opries
  4. Oprisavci
  5. oprodione
  6. OProv
  7. oprs.
  8. Oprtalj
  9. OPruss
  10. opry
  11. ops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OProv (page history and authors); Old Provençal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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