# 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. Doublet of Wien.

### Pronunciation

* (places in Austria, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia):
** IPA: /viˈɛ.nə/
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* (places in Georgia, Maine, New York, South Dakota):
** IPA: /vaɪˈɛ.nə/
* (city Illinois):
** IPA: /vaɪˈæ.nə/
* (city in Missouri):
** IPA: /ˈvaɪ.ə.nə/
* (community in Alabama):
** IPA: /vaɪˈi.nə/
* Rhymes: -ɛnə

### Proper noun

Vienna
* The capital and largest city of Austria.
    Synonym: Wien
** 1889, Humboldt library of science, number 113, page 13:From several magnets combined von Hellenbach and Gessmann in Vienna constructed considerably stronger hypnoscopes, through which 66 per cent. of those examined showed the above mentioned sensitiveness […]
** 2007 July 8, Christopher Gray, “Beyond Decay, a Fantastical Three-Story Concoction”, in The New York Times‎:He designed several remarkable buildings in and around Vienna, like the factory for the Zacherl family’s insecticide business, a striking polychromed brick building with pointed arches, minarets and a dome, explicitly Islamic in style.
** A state of Austria, including the city, within the state of Lower Austria.
* A locale in the United States.
** A town in Virginia.
** A city in West Virginia.
** A town in New York.
** A city, the county seat of Dooly County, Georgia.
** A city, the county seat of Johnson County, Illinois.
** A town in Wisconsin.
** A town in Maine.
** A city, the county seat of Maries County, Missouri.
** A town in Louisiana.
** A town in Maryland.
** A town in Ohio.
** A town in South Dakota.
** An unincorporated community in Alabama.
** An unincorporated community in Indiana.
** An unincorporated community in Michigan.
** An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
* A female given name.

#### Coordinate terms

* Burgenland
* Carinthia
* Lower Austria
* Salzburg
* Styria
* Tyrol
* Upper Austria
* Vienna
* Vorarlberg

#### Derived terms

* Vienna coup
* Vienna Game
* Vienna horn
* Vienna sausage
* Vienna white
* Viennese

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Vienna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Vienna (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Vannie, avenin, nivean

## Italian
### Etymology

Of disputed origin. Possibly from the Roman name, Latin Vindobona, or from a Celtic word *Vedunia (“forest stream”), for which compare Proto-Celtic *widus (“woodland”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvjɛn.na/
* Rhymes: -ɛnna
* Hyphenation: Vièn‧na

### Proper noun

Vienna f
* Vienna (the capital city of Austria)
* Vienna (a state of Austria)

#### Derived terms

* viennese

### See also

* Alta Austria
* Bassa Austria
* Burgenland
* Carinzia
* Salisburghese
* Stiria
* Tirolo
* Vienna
* Vorarlberg

### References

* ↑ Natascha Scott-Stokes, Rainer Eisenschmid: Vienna, p. 23
* ↑ 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
* Rōmaji transcription of ヴィエンナ

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /u̯iˈen.na/, [u̯iˈɛnːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.

#### Proper noun

Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension
* a city of the Allobroges in Gallia Narbonensis, now Vienne

##### Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

##### Derived terms

* Viennēnsis

### Etymology 2

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

#### Proper noun

Vienna f sg (genitive Viennae); first declension
* (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.

##### 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.
* ↑ 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
* ↑ Natascha Scott-Stokes, Rainer Eisenschmid: Vienna, p. 23
* ↑ 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
### Proper noun

Vienna f
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Viena.