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Versailles

/vɛʁ.saj/

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”).