Vichy

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Vichy

Etymology 1 edit

From French Vichy, from Occitan Vichèi, phonetically evolved from the Latin place name Vippiacus, itself named after an agricultural field belonging to a farmer named Vippius. An alternate theory attributes the name to the Latin vicus calidus, meaning "warm settlement."^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈviːʃi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -iːʃi

Proper noun edit

Vichy

A town in the Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
1. (historical, figurative, metonymically) Vichy France; the Vichy French government.

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Translations edit

town

Arabic: فِيشِي f (fīšī)
Armenian: Վիշի (Viši)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 維希／维希 (Wéixī)
French: Vichy (fr)
Occitan: Vichèi

Noun edit

Vichy

(colloquial) Short for Vichy water.

Etymology 2 edit

From Vichy France.

Noun edit

Vichy

(derogatory, attributive) Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.
- 2013 December 25, Martin Kettle, “What if the Germans had won the first world war?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme.
- 2015, Jonathan D. Smele, “Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich”, in Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, →ISBN, page 755:
  In 1940, having shunned German overtures for him to serve in the government of a future “Vichy Russia,” he fled to southern France to escape the Nazi invasion.
- 2022 March 2, Peter Weber, “U.S. and Britain reportedly believe the Ukraine war could last 10-20 years, become a Russian quagmire”, in The Week‎^[2]:
  "There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post.

References edit

^ Room, Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features, and Historic Sites

Anagrams edit

chivy

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Alternative forms edit

Vichèi

Proper noun edit

Vichy m

A town in the Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, the capital of Vichy France during World War II

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French edit

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Vichy

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Occitan Vichèi, phonetically evolved from the Latin place name Vippiacus, itself named after an agricultural field belonging to a farmer named Vippius. An alternate theory attributes the name to the Latin vicus calidus, meaning "warm settlement.".