Versailles

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

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

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

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From etymology 1.

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

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.

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /vəɹˈsaɪ/

Versailles

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

French Wikipedia has articles on:

Versailles and château de Versailles

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Uncertain, but possibly from Latin versus (“slope”)^[1] or versor (“to dwell”), both from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (“to be turning around”).

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.saj/ ~ /vɛʁ.sɑj/

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• Rhymes: -aj, -ɑj

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

• → Persian: ورسای (versây)

From French Versailles

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

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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”)

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