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== Etymology==
{{See also|Names of European cities in different languages: U–Z#V|Vindobona}}
The place is mentioned as ''Οϋι[νδ]όβονα (Oui[nd]obona)'' in the 2nd century AD (Ptolemy, ''Geography'', II, 14, 3); ''Vindobona'' in the 3rd century (''Itinerarium Antonini Augusti'' 233, 8); ''Vindobona'' in the 4th century ({{lang|la|[[Tabula Peutingeriana]]}}, V, 1); ''Vindomana'' ab. 400 ({{lang|la|[[Notitia Dignitatum]]}}, 145, 16); ''Vindomina, Vendomina'' in the 6th century ([[Jordanes]], ''[[De origine actibusque Getarum]]'', 50, 264).

The English name ''Vienna'' is borrowed from the homonymous Italian name. The German name {{lang|de|Wien}} comes from the name of the river [[Wien (river)|''Wien'']], mentioned ''ad UUeniam'' in 881 (''Wenia-'' in modern writing).<ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Csendes |contribution=Das Werden Wiens – Die siedlungsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen |language=de |editor1-last=Csendes |editor1-first=Peter |editor2-first=F. |editor2-last=Oppl |title=Wien&nbsp;– Geschichte einer Stadt von den Anfängen zur Ersten Türkenbelagerung |publisher=Böhlau |location=Vienna |year=2001 |pages=55–94, here p. 57 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Pleyel |title=Das römische Österreich |publisher=Pichler |location=Vienna |year=2002 |isbn=3-85431-270-9 |page=83 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-first1=Martin |editor-last1=Mosser |editor-first2=Karin |editor-last2=Fischer-Ausserer |title=Judenplatz. Die Kasernen des römischen Legionslagers |language=de |series=Wien Archäologisch |volume=5 |publisher=Stadtarchäologie Wien |location=Vienna |year=2008 |page=11 }}</ref>

The name of the Roman settlement on the same emplacement is of Celtic extraction {{lang|la|[[Vindobona]]}}, probably meaning "white village, white settlement" from Celtic roots, {{lang|cel|vindo-}}, meaning "white" (Old Irish {{lang|sga|find}} "white", Welsh {{lang|cy|gwyn}} / {{lang|cy|gwenn}}, Old Breton {{lang|br|guinn}} "white, bright" > Breton {{lang|br|gwenn}} "white"), and {{lang|cel|-bona}} "foundation, settlement, village",<ref>{{cite web |title=Vienna |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Vienna&allowed_in_frame=0 |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922014129/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Vienna&allowed_in_frame=0 |archive-date=22 September 2017 |access-date=18 May 2016 }}</ref><ref name="Delamarre">[[Xavier Delamarre]], ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux celtique continental'', éditions Errance, Paris, 2003, p. 82-319-320</ref> related to Old Irish ''bun'' "base, foundation" and Welsh ''bon'', same meaning.<ref name="Delamarre"/> The Celtic word {{lang|cel|vindos}} may reflect a widespread prehistorical [[Fionn mac Cumhaill#Etymology|cult of Vindos]], a Celtic [[deity]] who survives in [[Irish mythology]] as the warrior and [[Oracle|seer]] Fionn mac Cumhaill.<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor=20522282 |title=Fianaigecht in the Pre-Norman Period |last1=Mac Cana |first1=Proinsias |journal=Béaloideas |year=1986 |volume=54/55 |pages=75–99 [76] |doi=10.2307/20522282 |issn=0332-270X }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=FitzPatrick |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Hennessy |first2=Ronan |date=2017 |title=Finn's Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland |journal=Landscape History |volume=38 |issue=2 |page=31 |doi=10.1080/01433768.2017.1394062 |hdl=10379/7087 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> A variant of this Celtic name could be preserved in the [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], [[Polish language|Polish]] and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] names of the city ({{lang|cs|Vídeň}}, {{lang|sk|Viedeň}}, {{lang|pl|Wiedeń}} and {{lang|uk|Відень}} respectively) and in that of the city's district [[Wieden]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Johanna |last=Haberl |title=Favianis, Vindobona und Wien, eine archäologisch-historische Illustration zur Vita S. Severini des Eugippius |language=de |publisher=Brill Academic |location=Leiden |year=1976 |isbn=90-04-04548-1 |page=125 }}</ref>

The name of the city in [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] ({{lang|hu|Bécs}}), [[Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]] ({{lang-hbs-Latn-Cyrl|Beč|Беч|label=none}}) and [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] ({{lang|ota|بچ|}}, ''Beç'') has a different, probably [[Slavic peoples|Slavonic]] origin, and originally referred to an [[Pannonian Avars|Avar]] fort in the area.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Vienna |volume=28 |page=52 }}</ref> [[Slovene language|Slovene]] speakers call the city {{lang|sl|Dunaj}}, which in other Central European Slavic languages means the river [[Danube]], on which the city stands.