Versailles

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines (department), Île-de-France (region), and the former capital of France (country).
• The Palace of Versailles.
• The Treaty of Versailles (1919).
• town/and/county seat of county, {{l en Ripley County|s/Indiana|c/USA}}.
• city/and/county seat of county, {{l en Woodford County|s/Kentucky|c/USA|a=A home-rule class}}.

Origin

• Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wértti ("to be turning around").