villa

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.

Noun

villa (plural villas)

1. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
2. (UK) A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
3. (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.

Derived terms

• Lake Villa
• Villa Grove

Translations

See also

• dacha

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.

Noun

villa (plural villae)

1. (Ancient Rome) A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

Anagrams

• Viall

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīlla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.laː/

Noun

villa f (plural villa's, diminutive villaatje n)

1. mansion (large, (normally) expensive, sumptuous house)

   Synonym: landhuis

Derived terms

• vakantievilla
• villasubsidie
• villawijk
• zomervilla

Faroese

Etymology

Related to the adjectives vill (“lost”) and villur (“wild”), from Old Norse villr. See also Swedish villa (“to cause someone to lose one's way”), vill (“lost”).

Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, plural villur)

1. aberration
2. mistake, error

Declension

Synonyms

• (mistake): mistak, feilur, brek, lýti, brongl

Verb

villa (third person singular past indicative vilti, third person plural past indicative viltu, supine vilt)

1. to stray, to get astray
2. to err

Conjugation

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋilːɑ/, [ˈʋilːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ilːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): vil‧la

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *villa, a loan from Proto-Baltic *wílˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Lithuanian vi̇̀lna, Polish wełna, English wool and French laine.

Noun

villa

1. wool

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “1. villa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

From Italian villa.

Noun

villa (rare)

1. Synonym of huvila (“villa”)

Usage notes

Not often used except in the proper names of private houses (e.g. Villa Mairea, Villa Elfvik).

Declension

Further reading

• “2. villa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Anagrams

• valli

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian villa. Doublet of ville.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.la/

Noun

villa f (plural villas)

1. villa
2. house in the country

Synonyms

• maison de campagne

Descendants

• → Persian: ویلا (vilâ)

Further reading

• “villa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvilːɒ]
• Hyphenation: vil‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian vile.

Noun

villa (plural villák)

1. fork

   Coordinate term: kés

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”).

Noun

villa (plural villák)

1. villa (a house, larger and more expensive than average)

Declension

Further reading

• (fork): villa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (villa (large house)): villa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

Etymology 1

Related to sense 3 (“to lead astray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtla/

  Rhymes: -ɪtla

Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)

1. a mistake, an error

   Synonym: skekkja (f)

2. heresy

   Synonym: villutrú (f)

Declension

Derived terms

• villugjarn

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin villa (“villa, estate, large country residence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlːa/

  Rhymes: -ɪlːa

Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)

1. villa

   Synonyms: einbýlishús (n), setur (n), sveitasetur (n)

Declension

Etymology 3

Related to the adjectives vill (“lost”) and villur (“wild”), from Old Norse villr. See also Swedish villa (“to cause someone to lose one's way”), vill (“lost”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtla/

  Rhymes: -ɪtla

Verb

villa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative villti, supine villt)

1. to misguide, to lead astray, to deceive [with dative]

   Synonym: blekkja

Conjugation

Derived terms

• villa á sér heimildir
• villa sýn
• villa um fyrir
• villast (“to lose one's way”)
• villast á
• villandi (“misleading”)

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *villa. Cognates include Finnish villa and Estonian vill.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋilːɑ/, [ˈʋiɫː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋilːɑ/, [ˈʋiɫːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilː, -ilːɑ
• Hyphenation: vil‧la

Noun

villa

1. wool

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 667

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vīlla (“country house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvil.la/
• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: vìl‧la

Noun

villa f (plural ville)

1. mansion
2. detached house, residence
3. country house, villa
4. (archaic):
   1. countryside
   2. farm
   3. village, small town
   4. (poetic) city, town

Derived terms

• villa comunale

Descendants

• → Polish: willa
• → Turkish: villa

Anagrams

• valli

Latin

Alternative forms

• veilla (Republican Latin)
• vēlla (dialectal monophthongisation outcome)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weikslā, a nominal from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“settlement”) with an instrument/concrete-noun deverbal suffix *-slo- also found in pālus, vēlum. Related to vīcus (“row of houses; village”), vīcīnus (“neighbour”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iːl.la/, [ˈu̯iːlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvil.la/, [ˈvilːä]

Noun

vīlla f (genitive vīllae); first declension

1. country house; villa
2. estate, farm
3. (Medieval Latin) a city

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Further reading

• “villa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• villa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "villa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[15], London: Macmillan and Co.

Latvian

Etymology 1

From Italian villa.

Noun

villa f (4th declension)

1. villa

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

villa f (4th declension)

1. (dialectal) wool

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian villa and Latin villa.

Noun

villa m (definite singular villaen, indefinite plural villaer, definite plural villaene)

1. a villa, large detached house

References

• “villa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian villa and Latin villa.

Noun

villa m (definite singular villaen, indefinite plural villaer or villaar, definite plural villaene or villaane)

1. a villa, large detached house

References

• “villa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

villa f (plural villas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of vila.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin villa.

Pronunciation

• Syllabification: vi‧lla

Noun

villa f (plural villas)

1. small town
2. villa
3. settlement with a minimum of five thousand inhabitants (bigger than a town but smaller than a city) that has asked for the title officially; previously, this title was granted by the king
4. (Paraguay, Rioplatense) ellipsis of villa miseria (“slum”).

Derived terms

Further reading

• “villa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Latin vīlla

Noun

villa c

1. a villa, a house; a free-standing family house of any size but the very smallest
2. (Finland) a summerhome

Declension

Derived terms

• villaförening (“homeowner association”)
• villaförort (“suburb of stand-alone houses”)
• villaidyll (“idyllic area of stand-alone houses”)
• villakvarter (“city block of stand-alone houses”)
• villastad (“town of stand-alone houses”)
• villaägare (“owner of a stand-alone house”)

Etymology 2

See vill (“lost”)

Verb

villa (present villar, preterite villade, supine villat, imperative villa)

1. to confuse (someone); causing a feeling of being lost

Conjugation

Related terms

• förvilla
• villa bort (“to cause someone to lose his/her way; to confuse someone completely”)
• villa bort sig (“to lose track of one's location; to get lost”)

Noun

villa c

1. (dated) incorrect perception

   Synonyms: förvirring, inbillning, misstag, villfarelse

Declension

Derived terms

• domvilla
• synvilla
• villospår
• villoväg

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian villa.

Noun

villa (definite accusative villayı, plural villalar)

1. mansion
2. house in the country, villa

Declension