Vienna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Vienna or French Vienne.

Pronunciation
  • (places in Austria, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia):
    • IPA(key): /viˈɛ.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/

Proper noun

Vienna

  1. The capital and largest city in Austria.
  2. 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 in Georgia; the county seat of Dooly County.
    5. A city in Illinois; the county seat of Johnson County.
    6. A town in Wisconsin.
    7. A town in Maine.
    8. A city in Missouri; the county seat of Maries County.
    9. A town in Louisiana.
    10. A town in Maryland.
    11. A town in South Dakota.
    12. An unincorporated community in Alabama.
    13. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
    14. An unincorporated community in Michigan.
    15. An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
  3. A female given name.

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Italian

Etymology

Of disputed origin. Possibly from the Roman name, Latin Vindobona[1], or from a Celtic word *Vedunia (“forest stream”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛnna

Proper noun

Vienna f

  1. Vienna (capital of Austria)

References
  1. Natascha Scott-Stokes, Rainer Eisenschmid: Vienna, p. 23
  2. 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 3-85431-270-9, 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.

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Japanese

Romanization

Vienna

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ヴィエンナ

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /wiˈen.na/, [wiˈɛn.na]

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension

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

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Vienna
Genitive Viennae
Dative Viennae
Accusative Viennam
Ablative Viennā
Vocative Vienna
Locative Viennae
Derived terms
  • Viennēnsis

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension

  1. (medieval, New Latin) Vienna
    • 1486 — Commissio propria domini regis; Decreta Regni Hungariae 1458-1490 (Budapest, 1989), page 267
      ...verum etiam illum in Austria, patria scilicet sua hereditaria agentem adorsi Viennam, civitatem celebrerrimam et eius provincie caput...
Declension

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Vienna
Genitive Viennae
Dative Viennae
Accusative Viennam
Ablative Viennā
Vocative Vienna
Locative Viennae
Synonyms

References
  • 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

Portuguese

Etymology

Proper noun

Vienna f

  1. Archaic spelling of Viena.
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