Vienna

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Canada):

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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

Proper noun

Vienna

2. The capital and largest city of Austria.
   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.

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• Vienna coup
• Vienna Game
• Vienna horn
• Vienna sausage
• Vienna white
• Viennese

 

Translations

capital of Austria

Afrikaans: Wene Albanian: Vjena (sq) f Amharic: ቪየና (viyäna) Arabic: فِيِينَا f (fiyīnā), فِيِنَّا f (fiyinnā), ڤِيِينَا f (viyīnā), ڤِيِنَّا f (viyinnā) Egyptian Arabic: ڤيينا f (viyénna) Hijazi Arabic: فِيَنَّا f (fiyanna) Armenian: Վիեննա (Vienna) Asturian: Viena (ast) Azerbaijani: Vyana (az) Basque: Viena (eu) Bavarian: Wean Belarusian: Ве́на f (Vjéna) Bengali: ভিয়েনা (bn) (bhiẏena) Bulgarian: Вие́на f (Viéna) Burmese: ဗီယင်နာမြို့ (biyangnamrui.) Carpathian Rusyn: Ві́день f (Vídenʹ) Catalan: Viena (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 維也納／维也纳 (wai4 jaa5 naap6) Mandarin: 維也納／维也纳 (zh) (Wéiyěnà) Chuvash: Вена (Vena) Crimean Tatar: Viyana Czech: Vídeň (cs) f Danish: Wien (da) Dutch: Wenen (nl) n Esperanto: Vieno (eo) Estonian: Viin (et) Farefare: Vienna Finnish: Wien (fi) French: Vienne (fr) f Friulian: Viene f Galician: Viena (gl) f Georgian: ვენა (ka) (vena) German: Wien (de) n Greek: Βιέννη (el) f (Viénni), Βιένη (el) f (Viéni) Hawaiian: Wiena Hebrew: וִינָה (he) f (vína) Hindi: वियना m (viynā) Hungarian: Bécs (hu) Icelandic: Vín f, Vínarborg f Indonesian: Wina Irish: Vín f Old Irish: Finnba f Italian: Vienna (it) f Japanese: ウィーン (ja) (Wīn), (維納 (Wīn)) Kazakh: Вена (Vena) Khmer: វីយែន (km) (viiyɛɛn) Korean: 빈 (ko) (Bin), 비엔나 (Bienna), 윈 (ko) (win) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Viyana (ku) Kyrgyz: Вена (Vena) Ladin: Viena f Lao: ວຽນນາ (wīan nā) Latin: Vienna f, Vindobona (la) f Latvian: Vīne f Lithuanian: Viena (lt) f Macedonian: Вие́на (mk) f (Viéna) Malay: Vienna Maltese: Vjenna f Manx: Veen m Marathi: व्हिएना (vhienā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Вена (Vena) Navajo: Biin, Tsinyiʼ Tóhí Norwegian: Bokmål: Wien (no) Occitan: Viena f Ottoman Turkish: بچ (Beç), ویانه (Viyana) Pashto: ويانا f (wayānā), وين m Persian: وین (fa) (Viyan) Poitevin-Saintongeais: Viéne f Polish: Wiedeń (pl) m Portuguese: Viena (pt) f Romanian: Viena (ro) f Russian: Ве́на (ru) f (Véna) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Бе̑ч m Latin: Bȇč (sh) m Silesian: Wjedźyń f Slovak: Viedeň f Slovene: Dúnaj (sl) m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: Wiń m, Wien m Spanish: Viena (es) f Swedish: Wien (sv) Tagalog: Viena Tajik: Вена (Vyena) Tatar: Вена (Wena) Thai: เวียนนา (th) (wiian-naa) Tibetan: ཝི་ཨེ་ན (wi e na) Turkish: Viyana (tr), Beç (tr) Turkmen: Wena Ukrainian: Ві́день (uk) f (Vídenʹ) Urdu: ویانا m (viyanā) Uyghur: ۋيېنا (wyëna) Uzbek: Vena Vietnamese: Viên (vi) Walloon: Wîne (wa) f, Viene (wa) f Welsh: Fienna (cy) m West Flemish: Weenn n West Frisian: Wenen n Yakut: Вена (Vena) Yiddish: ווין (vin)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Vannie, avenin, nivean

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Vienna

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Vienna f

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

Derived terms

• viennese

See also

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

Anagrams

• in vena, inneva

Japanese

Romanization

Vienna

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヴィエンナ

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Vienna
genitive	Viennae
dative	Viennae
accusative	Viennam
ablative	Viennā
vocative	Vienna
locative	Viennae

Derived terms

• Viennēnsis

Etymology 2

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

Proper noun

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)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Vienna
genitive	Viennae
dative	Viennae
accusative	Viennam
ablative	Viennā
vocative	Vienna
locative	Viennae

Synonyms

• Vindobōna

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.

1. Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 269
2. Natascha Scott-Stokes, Rainer Eisenschmid: Vienna, p. 23
3. 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, 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.

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Vienna f

1. Archaic spelling of Viena.