Versailles
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (“to be turning around”).
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Versailles
- A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
- (by ellipsis) The Palace of Versailles.
- (by ellipsis, historical) The Treaty of Versailles (1919).
- Synonym: dictate of Versailles / Dictate of Versailles
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city in Yvelines, Île-de-France
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Etymology 2 edit
From etymology 1.
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Versailles
- A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
- A home-rule class city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.
Etymology 3 edit
Named by Vietnamese American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex in which they first settled.
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Versailles
- A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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Etymology edit
Uncertain, but possibly from Latin versus (“slope”)[1] or versor (“to dwell”), both from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (“to be turning around”).
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Versailles f pl (plural only)
- Versailles (a city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France)
- (by ellipsis) Versailles (the Palace of Versailles)
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- ^ Room, Adrian (1974) Place Names of the World, 2nd edition, McFarland & Co., published 2006
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Etymology edit
From French Versailles
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Versailles n (proper noun, genitive Versailles' or (with an article) Versailles)
- Versailles (a municipality of France)
- Short for Schloss Versailles (“Palace of Versailles”).
- (metonymically) Short for Diktat von Versailles; Versailler Diktat, Versailler Vertrag (“Treaty of Versailles”)