celte
French, noun
celte is spelled C-E-L-T-E (5 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Celte is a French masculine noun meaning “Celtic, (the language of the Celts)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Celte is a different word: “Celt (person of Celtic origin)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Langue indo-européenne que parlaient les Celtes, peuple qui occupaient la Gaule, le nord de l’Italie, la…”.
What does celte mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Celtic (of the Celts; of the style of the Celts)
noun
- 1
masculineCeltic, (the language of the Celts)
noun
- 1
femininemasculineCelt (person of Celtic origin)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif aux Celtes. 2. En rapport avec la langue celte.
noun: 1. Langue indo-européenne que parlaient les Celtes, peuple qui occupaient la Gaule, le nord de l’Italie, la Grande-Bretagne et l’Irlande.
noun: 1. Membre d’un peuple indoeuropéen peuplant l’Europe de l’Espagne au Danube, présent également en Galatie (Asie mineure) dont l’apogée de l’expansion territoriale se situe entre les VIIIᵉ et IIIᵉ siècles avant Jésus-Christ.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of celte
- celtes plural
- Celtes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to celte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is celte in French?
celte appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).