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 *wēdus (“wild”) via unattested Vulgar Latin *Vedunia.

• (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/
• Rhymes: -ɛnə

Vienna

1. The capital and largest city in Austria.
   1. A state of Austria, including the city, within the state of Lower 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, 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 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.

• (states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna ^{(Category: en:States of Austria)}

• Vienna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vienna (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• 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

• (states of Austria) Stati dell'Austria; Alta Austria, Bassa Austria, Burgenland, Carinzia, Salisburghese, Stiria, Tirolo, Vienna, Vorarlberg ^{(Category: it:States of Austria)}

• in vena, inneva

Vienna

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヴィエンナ

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iˈen.na/, [u̯iˈɛnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈen.na/, [viˈɛnːä]

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.

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Vienna f

1. Archaic spelling of Viena.