Etymology

Vichy

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Today it means: Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory. Full definition →

French Vichy ← Occitan Vichèi
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Vichy · proper noun, noun1

  1. Occitan · derived fromVichèi
  2. French · borrowed fromVichy
  3. English todayVichy

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."

Vichy · noun2

From Vichy France.

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