Versailles
French
proper noun
Definitions
- Versailles (municipality and suburb of Paris)
- (by ellipsis) Versailles the w
Etymology
Inherited from Latin versus (against, verse, turned, line, changed, row, toward, a line in writing, line of writing, facing, and in poetry a verse, having been turned, slope, towards, furrow) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (be turning around, be turning).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wértti
Gloss
be turning around, be turning
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Versailles English
- verse English
- versus Finnish
- *versicus Latin
- introrsum Latin
- quorsum Latin
- versiculus Latin
- versiformis Latin
- versiōnem Latin
- versus Latin
- vertō Latin
- Versal German
- vers Hungarian
- verso Italian
- versus Italian
- univers French
- vers French
- Версаль Russian
- verso Spanish, Castilian
- *wert- Proto-Indo-European
- *wértti Proto-Indo-European
- vers Norwegian Bokmål
- verso Portuguese
- *werþaną Proto-Germanic
- vers Swedish
- wiersz Polish
- fers Old English
- वृत्ति Sanskrit
- versus Middle English
- vers Old Norse
- *vorťati Proto-Slavic
- vers Old French
- vers Serbo-Croatian
- vers Catalan, Valencian
- Versalir Icelandic
- viers Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- gwers Welsh
- fers Old High German
- Véc-xai Vietnamese
- vers Middle High German
- vjershë Albanian
- vers Old Dutch
- 凡爾賽 Chinese
- *wertō Proto-Italic