proper noun/vɛʁ.saj/
Versailles (a city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France); Versailles (the Palace of Versailles)
Synonyms: château de Versailles
Related: versaillais, Versaillais, Versaillaise, versailliser
Uncertain, but possibly from Latin versus (“slope”) or versor (“to dwell”), both from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).