Vichy

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English

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Etymology 1

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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."[1]

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Vichy

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

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Vichy

  1. (colloquial) Short for Vichy water.

Etymology 2

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From Vichy France.

Noun

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Vichy

  1. (derogatory, attributive) Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.
    • 2013 December 25, Martin Kettle, “What if the Germans had won the first world war?”, in The Guardian[1]:
      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.
    • 2015, Jonathan D. Smele, “Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich”, in Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, →ISBN, page 755:
      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.
    • 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[2]:
      "There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post.

References

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  1. ^ Room, Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,600 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features, and Historic Sites

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Proper noun

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Vichy m

  1. A town in the Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, the capital of Vichy France during World War II
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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed 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.".

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Vichy m or f

  1. A town in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, the capital of Vichy France during World War II

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French Vichy.

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Vichy f

  1. A town in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, the capital of Vichy France during World War II

References

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  1. ^ Vichy in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)