Élysée

Borrowed from French Élysée.

Élysée

1. The official residence of the President of France.
2. (by extension) The French government.

• Elysée

Borrowed from Latin Elysium n, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον n (Ēlŭ́sĭon).

• IPA^(key): /e.li.ze/

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Élysée m

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Elysium
2. the Élysée palace (official residence of the President of France)
3. (metonymic) the French government

• In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

• → English: Élysée
• → Korean: 엘리제 (Ellije)