Versailles

Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).

• (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 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.

Uncertain, but possibly from Latin versus (“slope”)^[1] or versor (“to dwell”), both from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn 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. ellipsis of Schloss Versailles (“Palace of Versailles”)
3. (metonymic) ellipsis of Diktat von Versailles or Versailler Diktat,Versailler Vertrag|t=Treaty of Versailles}}

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