Vichy

See also: vichy

English

Etymology 1

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."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːʃi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːʃi

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• Vichy France
• Vichyism
• Vichyist
• Vichyite
• vichyssoise
• Vichy water

Translations

town

• Arabic: فِيشِي f (fīšī)
• Armenian: Վիշի (Viši)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維希／维希 (Wéixī)

• French: Vichy (fr)
• Occitan: Vichèi

Noun

Vichy

1. (colloquial) Short for Vichy water.

Etymology 2

From Vichy France.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• chivy

Catalan

Alternative forms

• Vichèi

Proper noun

Vichy m

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

Related terms

• vichy
• vichyssoise

French

Etymology

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.".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.ʃi/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Proper noun

Vichy m or f

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

Derived terms

• carottes Vichy
• vichyssois, vichyssoise

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French Vichy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viʃˈʃi/^**
• Rhymes: -i

Proper noun

Vichy f

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