Versailles

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (“to be turning around”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vɛəˈsaɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /vɚˈsaɪ/, /vɚˈzaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Proper noun

Versailles

1. A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
2. (by ellipsis) The Palace of Versailles.
3. (by ellipsis, historical) The Treaty of Versailles (1919).

   Synonym: dictate of Versailles / Dictate of Versailles

Derived terms

• Versaillais

Translations

city in Yvelines, Île-de-France

• Amharic: ቫሊስ (valis)
• Arabic: فِرْسَايْ m (firsāy), فيرساي m (fīrsāy)
• Armenian: Վերսալ (Versal), Վերսայ (Versay)
• Azerbaijani: Versal
• Belarusian: Верса́ль m (Vjersálʹ), (Taraškievica) Вэрса́ль m (Versálʹ)
• Breton: Versailhez (br) f
• Bulgarian: Верса̀й m (Versàj)
• Catalan: Versalles f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 凡爾賽／凡尔赛 (faan⁴ ji⁵ coi³)

  Mandarin: 凡爾賽／凡尔赛 (zh) (Fán'ěrsài)

• Corsican: Versailles f, Versaglia f
• Dutch: Versailles n
• Esperanto: Versajlo
• Estonian: Versailles (et)
• Finnish: Versailles
• French: Versailles (fr) f pl
• Galician: Versalles (gl) f
• Georgian: ვერსალი (versali)
• German: Versailles (de) n
• Greek: Βερσαλλίες (el) f pl (Versallíes), (rare) Βερσάιγ n (Versáig)
• Hebrew: וֶרְסָאיּ m (versáy)
• Hindi: वर्साय m (varsāy)
• Icelandic: Versalir m pl
• Italian: Versailles f, Versaglia f
• Japanese: ヴェルサイユ (Verusaiyu), (dated) ベルサイユ (Berusaiyu)
• Kannada: ವರ್ಸೈಲ್ಸ್ (varsails)
• Korean: 베르사유 (Bereusayu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڤێرسای (vêrsay)

• Lao: ແວກໄຊ (wǣk sai)
• Latin: Versaliae (la) f pl
• Latvian: Versaļa f
• Ligurian: Versagge f
• Lithuanian: Versalis m
• Macedonian: Верса́ј m (Versáj)
• Marathi: व्हेर्साय m (vhersāy)
• Occitan: Versalhas f
• Persian: ورسای (versây)
• Polish: Wersal (pl) m
• Portuguese: Versalhes
• Punjabi: ਵਰਸਾਈ m (varsāī)
• Russian: Верса́ль (ru) m (Versálʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Версај m

  Roman: Versailles m

• Spanish: Versalles (es) f
• Tamil: வெர்சாய் (vercāy), வேர்சாய் (vērcāy)
• Thai: แวร์ซาย (wɛɛr-saai)
• Tibetan: ཝེ་ཧི་ས་ཡེ (we hi sa ye)
• Turkish: Versay
• Ukrainian: Верса́ль m (Versálʹ)
• Urdu: ویغسائی m (vēġsāī)
• Uyghur: Wérsayl
• Uzbek: Versal
• Vietnamese: Véc-xai, Véc-xay
• Walloon: Versaye f
• Western Panjabi: ورسائی (varsāī)
• Yiddish: ווערסײַ n (versay)

Etymology 2

From etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /vərˈseɪlz/
• Rhymes: -eɪlz

Proper noun

Versailles

1. A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
2. A home-rule class city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
3. A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.

Etymology 3

Named by Vietnamese American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex in which they first settled.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /vəɹˈsaɪ/

Proper noun

Versailles

1. A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Translations

neighborhood of New Orleans

• Vietnamese: Vẹc Sai, Vẹc-xai

French

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Latin versus (“slope”) or versor (“to dwell”), both from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (“to be turning around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.saj/ ~ /vɛʁ.sɑj/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -aj, -ɑj

Proper noun

Versailles f pl (plural only)

1. Versailles (a city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France)
2. (by ellipsis) Versailles (the Palace of Versailles)

   Synonym: château de Versailles

Derived terms

• versaillais
• Versaillais
• Versaillaise
• versailliser

 

Descendants

• → Persian: ورسای (versây)

German

Etymology

From French Versailles

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛrˈsaɪ̯/, [vɛʁˈsaɪ̯], [vɛɐ̯-], [ʋ-], (archaic) /vɛrˈzaɪ̯/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Versailles n (proper noun, genitive Versailles' or (with an article) Versailles)

1. Versailles (a municipality of France)
2. Short for Schloss Versailles (“Palace of Versailles”).
3. (metonymically) Short for Diktat von Versailles; Versailler Diktat, Versailler Vertrag (“Treaty of Versailles”)

Derived terms

• Versailler