Lausanne

English

Lausanne

Etymology

Borrowed from French Lausanne.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈzæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /loʊˈzæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Proper noun

Lausanne

2. A municipality and city, the capital of Vaud canton, in western Switzerland, in which French is the main language.
4. A district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Capital: Lausanne

Translations

city

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: لوزان f (lōzān)

• Armenian: Լոզան (hy) (Lozan)
• Bulgarian: Лоза́на f (Lozána)
• Catalan: Lausana f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洛桑 (zh) (Luòsāng)

• Franco-Provençal: Losena
• French: Lausanne (fr) f
• German: Lausanne (de) n
• Greek: Λωζάνη (el) f (Lozáni)
• Italian: Losanna f
• Latin: Lausanna f, Lausōna f, Lausōnium n, Lausodunum
• Persian: لوزان (lozân)
• Polish: Lozanna (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lausana (pt) f
• Romansh: Losanna
• Russian: Лоза́нна (ru) f (Lozánna)
• Spanish: Lausana (es) f
• Turkish: Lozan (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: لوزان (lozan)

French

Etymology

From the Roman name, Latin Lousonna or Lausōnium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo.zan/

Proper noun

Lausanne f

1. Lausanne (a municipality and city, the capital of Vaud canton, in western Switzerland, in which French is the main language)

References

• Hubschmied, Johann Ulrich (1938), “Sprachliche Zeugen für das späte Aussterben des Gallischen”, in Vox Romanica‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, →DOI, page 102 of 48–155
• Schuchardt, Hugo (1882), “V. Etymologisches. 1. Spanisch-portugiesische Etymologien”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (in German), volume 6, page 424

German

Lausanne

Alternative forms

• Lausannen, Losannen (obsolete)

Etymology

From French Lausanne, from Latin Lousonna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [loˈzan]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Lau‧sanne

Proper noun

Lausanne n (proper noun, genitive Lausannes or (optionally with an article) Lausanne)

1. Lausanne (a municipality and city, the capital of Vaud canton, in western Switzerland, in which French is the main language)

Further reading

• “Lausanne”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Lausanne” in Duden online
• “Lausanne” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon