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

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