proper noun/vi.ʃi/
Vichy (a town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II)
Related: carottes Vichy, vichyssois, vichyssoise
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.".