sentences:  Old French "Bretaigne" (whence also Modern French "Bretagne") and Middle English "Bretayne", "Breteyne".The French form replaced the Old English "Breoton, Breoten, Bryten, Breten" (also "Breoton-lond, Breten-lond").Britannia was used by the Romans from the 1st century BC for the British Isles taken together.