English Online Dictionary. What means villa? What does villa mean?
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪlə/
- Rhymes: -ɪlə
Noun
villa (plural villas or villae)
- (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
- (UK, plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
- (Ancient Rome, plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
- (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.
Derived terms
- Lake Villa
- Villa Grove
Translations
See also
- dacha
Anagrams
- Viall
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vīlla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvi.laː/
Noun
villa f (plural villa's, diminutive villaatje n)
- 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)
- aberration
- 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)
- to stray, to get astray
- to err
Conjugation
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋilːɑ/, [ˈʋilːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ilːɑ
- Syllabification(key): vil‧la
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *villa, a loan from Proto-Baltic *wilˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Lithuanian vìlna, Polish wełna, English wool and French laine.
Noun
villa
- 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)
- villa
Usage notes
Not often used except in the proper names of private houses (e.g. Villa Mairea, Villa Elfvik).
Declension
Synonyms
- huvila
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)
- villa
- house in the country
Synonyms
- maison de campagne
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)
- fork
- Coordinate term: kés
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”).
Noun
villa (plural villák)
- villa (a house, larger and more expensive than average)
Declension
Further reading
- (fork): villa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (villa (large house)): villa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: 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)
- a mistake, an error
- heresy
Declension
Synonyms
- (mistake): skekkja
- (heresy): villutrú
Derived terms
- villugjarn
Etymology 2
From Latin villa (“villa, estate, large country residence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪlːa/
- Rhymes: -ɪlːa
Noun
villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)
- villa
Synonyms
- (villa): einbýlishús n, setur n, sveitasetur n
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)
- (transitive, governs the dative) to misguide, to lead astray, to deceive
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- (lead astray): blekkja
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
- 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)
- mansion
- detached house, residence
- country house, villa
- (archaic):
- countryside
- farm
- village, small town
- (poetic) city, town
- countryside
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, 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) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iːl.la/, [ˈu̯iːlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvil.la/, [ˈvilːä]
Noun
vīlla f (genitive vīllae); first declension
- country house; villa
- estate, farm
- (Medieval Latin) a city
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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)
- villa
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
villa f (4th declension)
- (dialectal) wool
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Italian villa and Latin villa.
Noun
villa m (definite singular villaen, indefinite plural villaer, definite plural villaene)
- 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)
- a villa, large detached house
References
- “villa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
villa f (plural villas)
- Obsolete spelling of vila
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin villa.
Pronunciation
- (Rioplatense)
- (Castilian)
- Syllabification: vi‧lla
Noun
villa f (plural villas)
- small town
- villa
- 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
- (Argentina) synonym of villa miseria (“slum”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “villa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Latin vīlla
Noun
villa c
- a villa, a house; a free-standing family house of any size but the very smallest
- (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)
- 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
- (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)
- mansion
- house in the country, villa