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English
Etymology
From Italian and Medieval Latin Vienna, from German Wien, Middle High German Wienne, and Old High German Wienna, probably from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”) or *weidus (“wild”) via unattested Vulgar Latin *Vedunia.
Pronunciation
- (places in Austria, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia):
- (places in Georgia, Maine, New York, South Dakota):
- (city Illinois):
- (city in Missouri):
- (community in Alabama):
- Rhymes: -ɛnə
Proper noun
Vienna
- The capital and largest city of Austria.
- A state of Austria, including the city, within the state of Lower Austria.
- A locale in the United States.
- A town in Virginia.
- A city in West Virginia.
- A town in New York.
- A city, the county seat of Dooly County, Georgia.
- A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Illinois.
- A town in Wisconsin.
- A town in Maine.
- A city, the county seat of Maries County, Missouri.
- A town in Louisiana.
- A town in Maryland.
- A town in Ohio.
- A town in South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
- A female given name.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
capital of Austria
- Afrikaans: Wene
- Albanian: Vjena (sq) f
- Amharic: ቪየና (viyäna)
- Arabic: فِيِينَا f (fiyīnā), فِيِنَّا f (fiyinnā), ڤِيِينَا f (viyīnā), ڤِيِنَّا f (viyinnā)
- Egyptian Arabic: ڤيينا f (viyénna)
- Hijazi Arabic: فِيَنَّا f (fiyanna)
- Armenian: Վիեննա (Vienna)
- Asturian: Viena (ast)
- Azerbaijani: Vyana (az)
- Basque: Viena (eu)
- Bavarian: Wean
- Belarusian: Ве́на f (Vjéna)
- Bengali: ভিয়েনা (bn) (bhiẏena)
- Bulgarian: Вие́на f (Viéna)
- Burmese: ဗီယင်နာမြို့ (biyangnamrui.)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Ві́день f (Vídenʹ)
- Catalan: Viena (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 維也納 / 维也纳 (wai4 jaa5 naap6)
- Mandarin: 維也納 / 维也纳 (zh) (Wéiyěnà)
- Chuvash: Вена (Vena)
- Crimean Tatar: Viyana
- Czech: Vídeň (cs) f
- Danish: Wien (da)
- Dutch: Wenen (nl) n
- Esperanto: Vieno (eo)
- Estonian: Viin (et)
- Farefare: Vienna
- Finnish: Wien (fi)
- French: Vienne (fr) f
- Friulian: Viene f
- Galician: Viena (gl) f
- Georgian: ვენა (ka) (vena)
- German: Wien (de) n
- Greek: Βιέννη (el) f (Viénni), Βιένη (el) f (Viéni)
- Hawaiian: Wiena
- Hebrew: וִינָה (he) f (vína)
- Hindi: वियना m (viynā)
- Hungarian: Bécs (hu)
- Icelandic: Vín f, Vínarborg f
- Indonesian: Wina
- Irish: Vín f
- Old Irish: Finnba f
- Italian: Vienna (it) f
- Japanese: ウィーン (ja) (Wīn), (維納 (Wīn))
- Kazakh: Вена (Vena)
- Khmer: វីយែន (km) (viiyɛɛn)
- Korean: 빈 (ko) (Bin), 비엔나 (Bienna), 윈 (ko) (win) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Viyana (ku)
- Kyrgyz: Вена (Vena)
- Ladin: Viena f
- Lao: ວຽນນາ (wīan nā)
- Latin: Vienna f, Vindobona (la) f
- Latvian: Vīne f
- Lithuanian: Viena (lt) f
- Macedonian: Вие́на (mk) f (Viéna)
- Malay: Vienna
- Maltese: Vjenna f
- Manx: Veen m
- Marathi: व्हिएना (vhienā)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Вена (Vena)
- Navajo: Biin, Tsinyiʼ Tóhí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Wien (no)
- Occitan: Viena f
- Ottoman Turkish: بچ (Beç), ویانه (Viyana)
- Pashto: ويانا f (wayānā), وين m
- Persian: وین (fa) (Viyan)
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: Viéne f
- Polish: Wiedeń (pl) m
- Portuguese: Viena (pt) f
- Romanian: Viena (ro) f
- Russian: Ве́на (ru) f (Véna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Бе̑ч m
- Latin: Bȇč (sh) m
- Silesian: Wjedźyń f
- Slovak: Viedeň f
- Slovene: Dúnaj (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: Wiń m, Wien m
- Spanish: Viena (es) f
- Swedish: Wien (sv)
- Tagalog: Viena
- Tajik: Вена (Vyena)
- Tatar: Вена (Wena)
- Thai: เวียนนา (th) (wiian-naa)
- Tibetan: ཝི་ཨེ་ན (wi e na)
- Turkish: Viyana (tr), Beç (tr)
- Turkmen: Wena
- Ukrainian: Ві́день (uk) f (Vídenʹ)
- Urdu: ویانا m (viyanā)
- Uyghur: ۋيېنا (wyëna)
- Uzbek: Vena
- Vietnamese: Viên (vi)
- Walloon: Wîne (wa) f, Viene (wa) f
- Welsh: Fienna (cy) m
- West Flemish: Weenn n
- West Frisian: Wenen n
- Yakut: Вена (Vena)
- Yiddish: ווין (vin)
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Italian
Etymology
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]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvjɛn.na/
- Rhymes: -ɛnna
- Hyphenation: Vièn‧na
Proper noun
Vienna f
- Vienna (the capital city of Austria)
- Vienna (a state of Austria)
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ 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.
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
Vienna
- Rōmaji transcription of ヴィエンナ
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Named after the Vienne river, of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to pursue, reach towards”). However, other roots are possible.[1]
Proper noun
Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension
- a city of the Allobroges in Gallia Narbonensis, now Vienne
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Of disputed origin. Possibly from Vindobona,[2] or from a Celtic word *Vedunia (“forest stream”), for which compare Proto-Celtic *widus (“woodland”).[3]
Proper noun
Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Vienna
1486, “Commissio propria domini regis”, in Decreta Regni Hungariae 1458-1490, Budapest, published 1989, page 267:...verum etiam illum in Austria, patria scilicet sua hereditaria agentem adorsi Viennam, civitatem celebrerrimam et eius provincie caput...- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Synonyms
References
- “Vienna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Vienna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 269
- ^ 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.
Portuguese
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun
Vienna f
- Archaic spelling of Viena.