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#Vetinari gets his name from the #Medici, real life city state rulers. Vet. Medic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/5ukl4v/comment/ddvswr2/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

From the same topic:

#Pseudopolis Yard is where the pseudo-police of the Disc meet.

and:

I've always taken this to imply pseudo city, or fake city.

and finally:

Also along those lines: Uberwald is a combination of two German words, "Uber" meaning around/across (in a sense) and "Wald" meaning forest.
If you roughly translate those words to Latin, you get "Trans" and "Sylvania". That one took me a while.

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