FromItalian andMedieval LatinVienna, fromGermanWien,Middle High GermanWienne, andOld High GermanWienna, probably fromProto-Celtic*widus(“wood”) or*weidus(“wild”) via unattestedVulgar Latin*Vedunia.Doublet ofWien.
- (places in Austria, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia):
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- (city in Illinois):
- (city in Missouri):
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- Rhymes:-ɛnə
Vienna
- Thecapital andlargestcity ofAustria.
- Synonym:Wien
1889,Humboldt library of science, number113, page13:From several magnets combined von Hellenbach and Gessmann inVienna constructed considerably stronger hypnoscopes, through which 66 per cent. of those examined showed the above mentioned sensitiveness[…]
2007 July 8, Christopher Gray, “Beyond Decay, a Fantastical Three-Story Concoction”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on29 August 2021:He designed several remarkable buildings in and aroundVienna, like the factory for the Zacherl family’s insecticide business, a striking polychromed brick building with pointed arches, minarets and a dome, explicitly Islamic in style.
2020 November 26, Philip Oltermann in Berlin, “Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name”, inThe Guardian[2], archived fromthe original on15 January 2021:Located 260km (161 miles) west ofVienna, Fucking has in recent years become a popular stop-off point for tourists, particularly from English-speaking countries, who snap pictures of themselves by the signposts at the entrance and exit to the village and post them on social media.
- Astate ofAustria, including the city, within the state ofLower Austria.
- A locale in theUnited States.
- Atown inVirginia.
- Acity inWest Virginia.
- Atown inNew York.
- Acity, thecounty seat ofDooly County,Georgia.
- Acity, thecounty seat ofJohnson County,Illinois.
- Atown inWisconsin.
- Atown inMaine.
- Acity, thecounty seat ofMaries County,Missouri.
- Atown inLouisiana.
- Atown inMaryland.
- Atown inOhio.
- Atown inSouth Dakota.
- Anunincorporated community inAlabama.
- Anunincorporated community inIndiana.
- Anunincorporated community inMichigan.
- Anunincorporated community inNorth Carolina.
- A femalegiven name.
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)
- 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
- Frisian:
- West Frisian:Wenen n
- Friulian:Viene f
- Galician:Viena (gl) f
- Georgian:ვენა (ka)(vena)
- German:Wien (de) n
- Bavarian:Wean
- 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)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:Wien (no)
- Occitan:Viena f
- Pannonian Rusyn:Беч m(Beč),Бейч m(Bejč)
- 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(Vena)
- Tatar:Вена(Wena)
- Thai:เวียนนา (th)(wiian-naa)
- Tibetan:ཝི་ཨེ་ན(wi e na)
- Turkish:Viyana (tr),Beç (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish:بچ(Beç),ویانه(Viyana)
- 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
- Yakut:Вена(Vena)
- Yiddish:ווין(vin)
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Of disputed origin. Possibly from the Roman name,LatinVindobona,[1] or from aCeltic word*Vedunia(“forest stream”), for which compareProto-Celtic*widus(“woodland”).[2]
Vienna f
- Vienna (thecapital city ofAustria)
- Vienna (astate ofAustria)
- ^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.
Vienna
- Rōmaji transcription ofヴィエンナ
Named after theVienne river, of uncertain origin, possibly fromProto-Indo-European*weyh₁-(“to pursue, reach towards”). However, other roots are possible.[1]
Vienna f sg (genitiveViennae);first declension
- a city of theAllobroges inGallia Narbonensis, nowVienne
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Of disputed origin. Possibly fromVindobona,[2] or from aCeltic word*Vedunia(“forest stream”), for which compareProto-Celtic*widus(“woodland”).[3]
Vienna f sg (genitiveViennae);first declension
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin)Vienna
1486, “Commissio propria domini regis”, inDecreta Regni Hungariae 1458-1490, Budapest, published1989, page267:...verum etiam illum in Austria, patria scilicet sua hereditaria agentem adorsiViennam, civitatem celebrerrimam et eius provincie caput...- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
- “Vienna”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Vienna”, inGaffiot, 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, page269
- ^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.
Vienna f
- pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) ofViena
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