Savoy

See also: savoy

English

Etymology

From French Savoy , Savoie, from the Roman name, Late Latin Sapaudia. See sappinus (“type of fir”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /səˈvɔɪ/, [səˈvɔɪ̯]

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• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /səˈvoj/
• (Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /səˈvoɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ
• Hyphenation: Sa‧voy

Proper noun

Savoy

2. (historical) A historical region shared between the modern countries of France, Italy and Switzerland.
4. (historical) A former duchy existing from 1416 to 1847, whose maximal extent included parts of modern southeastern France, northwestern Italy, and southwestern Switzerland; in full, Duchy of Savoy.
5. Alternative form of Savoie: A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
6. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Litteral Township, Washington County, Arkansas.
   2. A village in Champaign County, Illinois, named after Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy.
   3. A town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
   4. A minor city in Fannin County, Texas.
   5. A ghost town in the town of Maxville, Buffalo County, Wisconsin.

Derived terms

• Savoy blue
• Savoy cake
• Savoy disease
• savoyed
• savoying
• semisavoy

Translations

a historical region of western Europe

• Armenian: Սավոյա (Savoya)
• Asturian: Saboya (ast)
• Catalan: Savoia f
• Corsican: Savoia f
• Czech: Savojsko n
• Danish: Savoyen c, Savojen c
• Dutch: Savooien
• Finnish: Savoiji
• Franco-Provençal: Savouè f
• French: Savoie (fr) f
• German: Savoyen (de) n
• Greek: Σαβοΐα (el) f (Savoḯa)
• Hindi: सवोय m (savoy)
• Hungarian: Savoya
• Italian: Savoia f, Sabaudia f
• Japanese: サヴォワ (Savowa)
• Latin: Sapaudia f, Sabaudia f
• Lithuanian: Savoja f
• Marathi: सव्हॉय (savhŏy)
• Norman: Savouaie f
• Occitan: Savòia f
• Polish: Sabaudia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Savoia f, Saboia f
• Russian: Саво́йя (ru) f (Savójja)
• Sicilian: Savoja f
• Spanish: Saboya f
• Swedish: Savojen

Noun

Savoy (countable and uncountable, plural Savoys)

1. Savoy cabbage.
2. A member of an Italian noble family which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Sardinia and later of Italy.

Translations

Savoy cabbage — see Savoy cabbage