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Vienne.

Vienna (the capital and largest city of Austria)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

name/vjɛn/
  1. Vienna (the capital and largest city of Austria)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Of disputed origin. Perhaps from the Roman name, Latin Vindobona, or possibly from a Celtic word *Veduna (“forest stream”), which would justify the phonetic evolution into the modern french form. Compare Proto-Celtic *widus (“woodland”).

name/vjɛn/
  1. Vienne (a town and commune of Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Classical Latin Vienna, further etymology uncertain.

name/vjɛn/
  1. Vienne (a left tributary of the Loire in southwest France, flowing through the departments of Corrèze, Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Charente, Vienne and Indre-et-Loire)

    feminine
  2. Vienne (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Possibly from *vig-, with a pre-Celtic suffix -ara (see Vienne (affluent de la Loire)#Étymologie on French Wikipedia). The department was named after the river.

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