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Vichy en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈviːʃi/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French Vichy, from Occitan Vichèi, phonetically evolved from the Latin place name Vippiacus, itself named after an agricultural field belonging to a farmer named Vippius. An alternate theory attributes the name to the Latin vicus calidus, meaning "warm settlement."

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Vichy water.

Vichy en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈviːʃi/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French Vichy, from Occitan Vichèi, phonetically evolved from the Latin place name Vippiacus, itself named after an agricultural field belonging to a farmer named Vippius. An alternate theory attributes the name to the Latin vicus calidus, meaning "warm settlement."

Meanings

  1. A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
  2. (figuratively, historical, metonymically) A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II. ▸ Vichy France; the Vichy French government.

Deriveds

Vichy France · vichyssoise · Vichy water · Vichyist · Vichyism · Vichyite

Translations (6)

ar فِيشِي (town) · mr व्हिशी (town) · cmn 維希 /维希 (town) · fr Vichy (town) · hy Վիշի (town) · oc Vichèi (town)

wikidata: Q93351 · wikidata: Q93351

Vichy en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Vichy France.

Meanings

  1. (attributive, derogatory) Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.
    • In 1940, having shunned German overtures for him to serve in the government of a future “Vichy Russia,” he fled to southern France to escape the Nazi invasion. 2015, Jonathan D. Smele, “Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich”, in Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, →ISBN, page 755:
    • "There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post. 2022 March 2, Peter Weber, “U.S. and Britain reportedly believe the Ukraine war could last 10-20 years, become a Russian quagmire”, in The Week:
    • More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme. 2013 December 25, Martin Kettle, “What if the Germans had won the first world war?”, in The Guardian: