Vienne
See also: vienne
EnglishEdit
Proper nounEdit
Vienne
- A department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
- A river in southwest France.
- A city in the Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
TranslationsEdit
department of France
city in Isère, France
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Of disputed origin. Possibly from the Roman name, Latin Vindobona[1], or from a Celtic word *Vedunia (“forest stream”), for which compare Proto-Celtic *widus (“woodland”).[2]
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Vienne f
- Vienna (the capital city of Austria)
- Vienne (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
- Vienne (a left tributary of the Loire, in southwest France)
- Vienne (a city in the Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
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DescendantsEdit
- → Persian: وین (viyan)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Natascha Scott-Stokes, Rainer Eisenschmid: Vienna, p. 23
- ^ Peter Csendes: Das Werden Wiens – Die siedlungsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen, in: id. and F. Oppl (edd.): Wien – Geschichte einer Stadt von den Anfängen zur Ersten Türkenbelagerung. Böhlau, Vienna 2001, pp. 55–94, here p. 57; Peter Pleyel: Das römische Österreich. Pichler, Vienna 2002, →ISBN, p. 83; Martin Mosser and Karin Fischer-Ausserer (edd.): Judenplatz. Die Kasernen des römischen Legionslagers. (= Wien Archäologisch. Band 5). Museen der Stadt Wien – Stadtarchäologie, Vienna 2008, p. 11.