Vichy

Meaning

Proper Noun

• town Allier (department) Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (region) France (country), the capital of Vichy France during World War II.

Origin

• From French Vichy, 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."