Vienna

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. Doublet of Wien.

• (places in Austria, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia):
  • IPA^(key): /viˈɛ.nə/, (sometimes in General American) /viˈɪ.nə/

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• (places in Georgia, Maine, New York, South Dakota):
  • IPA^(key): /vaɪˈɛ.nə/
• (city Illinois):
  • IPA^(key): /vaɪˈæ.nə/
• (city in Missouri):
  • IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ.ə.nə/
• (community in Alabama):
  • IPA^(key): /vaɪˈi.nə/
• Rhymes: -ɛnə

Vienna

2. The capital and largest city of Austria.

   Synonym: Wien

   • 1889, Humboldt library of science, number 113, page 13:

     From several magnets combined von Hellenbach and Gessmann in Vienna 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”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     He designed several remarkable buildings in and around Vienna, 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.

   1. A state of Austria, including the city, within the state of Lower Austria.
3. A locale in the United States.
   1. A town in Virginia.
   2. A city in West Virginia.
   3. A town in New York.
   4. A city, the county seat of Dooly County, Georgia.
   5. A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Illinois.
   6. A town in Wisconsin.
   7. A town in Maine.
   8. A city, the county seat of Maries County, Missouri.
   9. A town in Louisiana.
   10. A town in Maryland.
   11. A town in Ohio.
   12. A town in South Dakota.
   13. An unincorporated community in Alabama.
   14. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
   15. An unincorporated community in Michigan.
   16. An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
4. A female given name.

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• Vannie, avenin, nivean

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]

• IPA^(key): /ˈvjɛn.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛnna
• Hyphenation: Vièn‧na

Vienna f

1. Vienna (the capital city of Austria)
2. Vienna (a state of Austria)

• viennese

• in vena, inneva

Vienna

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヴィエンナ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiˈɛn.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈɛn.na]

Named after the Vienne river, of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to pursue, reach towards”). However, other roots are possible.^[1]

Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension

1. a city of the Allobroges in Gallia Narbonensis, now Vienne

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Viennēnsis

Of disputed origin. Possibly from Vindobona,^[2] or from a Celtic word *Vedunia (“forest stream”), for which compare Proto-Celtic *widus (“woodland”).^[3]

Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension

1. (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)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Vindobōna

• “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.

Vienna f

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Viena.