Revest-les-Roches (; oc, So Revest dei Ròcas) is a
commune
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in the
Alpes-Maritimes
Alpes-Maritimes (; oc, Aups Maritims; it, Alpi Marittime, "Maritime Alps") is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it ...
department
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in southeastern
France
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.
Its inhabitants are called ''Revestois''.
Toponymy
The name of the village, as it was first recorded in 1007 (''Revestis''), comes from the
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language
Occitan (; o ...
''So Revèst'', a variant of ''revèrs'', and means a site exposed to the north.Ernest Nègre, ''
Toponymie générale de la France
''Toponymie générale de la France'' (''General Toponymy of France'', ''TGF'' for short), subtitled ''Étymologie de 35.000 noms de lieux'' (''Etymology of 35,000 place names''), is a book in four volumes about the origins of place names througho ...
: étymologie de 35 000 noms de lieux, vol. 2 : Formations non-romanes; formations dialectales'', Geneva, Librairie Droz, coll. « Publications romanes et françaises » (no 194), 1996, 676 p. (), § 22391, p 1199