villa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə

villa (plural villas or villae)

1. (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.

2. (UK, plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
3. (Ancient Rome, plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

• Villa Grove

• dacha

• Viall

Borrowed from Latin vīlla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.laː/

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

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

   Synonym: landhuis

• vakantievilla
• villasubsidie
• villawijk
• zomervilla

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”).

villa f (genitive singular villu, plural villur)

1. aberration
2. mistake, error

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

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

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

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

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.

villa

1. wool

• villainen
• villava

From Italian villa.

villa

1. (rare) villa

Not often used except in the proper names of private houses: Villa Mairea, Villa Elfvik.

• huvila

• valli

Borrowed from Italian villa. Doublet of ville.

• IPA^(key): /vi.la/

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villa f (plural villas)

1. villa
2. house in the country

• maison de campagne

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

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

From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian vile.

villa (plural villák)

1. fork

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

villa (plural villák)

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

• (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

Related to sense 3 (“to lead astray”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtla/

  Rhymes: -ɪtla

villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)

1. a mistake, an error
2. heresy

• (mistake): skekkja
• (heresy): villutrú

• villugjarn

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlːa/

  Rhymes: -ɪlːa

villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)

1. villa

• (villa): einbýlishús n, setur n, sveitasetur n

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtla/

  Rhymes: -ɪtla

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

1. (transitive, governs the dative) to misguide, to lead astray, to deceive

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• (lead astray): blekkja

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

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

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

villa

1. wool

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

From Latin vīlla (“country house”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvil.la/

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• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: vìl‧la

villa f (plural ville)

1. mansion
2. detached house, residence
3. country house, villa
   • 1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, La fiera‎, published 1726, page 79:

     Una villa ha colei quà preso a fitto,
     E fa credersi, intendo, una 'nfelice
     Donna Romana […]

     She has rented a country house here, and I understand she makes believe to be an unhappy woman from Rome

   • 1799, Vittorio Alfieri, Misogallo [The French-Hater]‎, London, page 28:

     Codesto Arcivescovo se ne rimaneva dunque avvilito, e privato, in una sua villa situata tra Parigi, e Versaglia

     Thus, said Archbishop was staying, disheartened and in privacy, in a country house of his, located between Paris and Versailles

4. (archaic):
   1. countryside
      • 13^th century, Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture]‎, translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 4:

        Imperciocchè 'l coltivamento della villa richiede […] spezialmente fortezza degli abitanti […]

        Since the cultivation of the countryside highly requires strength of the farmers […]

      • 13^th century, Bono Giamboni, “Capitolo 3”, in Dell'arte della guerra [On the Art of War]‎, translation of Epitoma Rei Militaris by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, published 1815, page 8:

        Seguitasi che veggiamo onde è più utile il cavaliere trarre, della città o della villa.

        We follow by seeing whence it is best to take the knight: from the city or the countryside.

      • 15^th c., Leon Battista Alberti, I libri della famiglia‎, collected in Opere volgari, page 49:

        Vedilo come sieno e’ fanciulli allevati in villa alla fatica e al sole robusti e fermi più che questi nostri cresciuti nell’ozio e nella ombra

        You can see how the youths raised in toils, under the sun in the countryside, are stronger and more vigorous than those of ours, raised in idleness, and in the shadows.

   2. farm
      • 1537, Annibale Caro, transl., Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe [The Bucolic Loves of Daphnis and Chloe]‎, Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, translation of Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη (Dáphnis kaì Khlóē) by Longus, published 1812, page 6, collected in Opere del commendatore Annibal Caro - Volume Ⅶ:

        Fuora di Metellino, poco più di due miglia lontano, era la villa d'un ricchissimo gentiluomo, bellissima e grandissima possessione

        Just two miles outside of Mytilene, was the farm of a very wealthy gentleman, a wonderful and vast property

   3. village, small town
      • 14^th century, Bartolomeo da San Concordio, Ammaestramenti degli antichi‎, Milan: Società tipografica de' Classici Italiani, published 1808, page 16:

        Grandissima parte di questa turba è fuori di sua patria. Venuti sono di cittadi, di castella, di ville, di tutto il mondo.

        The largest part of this crowd is outside their homeland. They came from cities, from castles, from villages, from all over the world.

      • 1530, Pietro Bembo, “Libro secondo, Capitolo ⅩⅩ”, in Gli asolani, published 1989:

        Allora le ville di nuove case s’empierono, e le città si cinsero di difendevole muro

        Thus the villages were filled with new houses, and the cities were surrounded with defensive walls

   4. (poetic) city, town
      • 1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione‎, published 1833, Chapter 6, page 27:

        Nè credo che sia cosa in tutto 'l mondo,
        Villa, paese dimestico o strano,
        Che non paresse dentro da quel tondo.

        Nor I think there were a thing in the whole world, be it a city or a country, familiar or foreign, that didn't seem to be inside that circle.

      • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 222:

        Nel tempo, ch'a Silvestro dar volea
        Costantino a guardar quella gran villa.
        Villa dirò, che allhor villa divenne,
        La città, che del mondo il scettro tenne

        In the time when Constantine wanted to give Sylvester that great town. The town I mean, that, once a town, became the city that held the scepter of the world.

• villa comunale

• → Polish: willa
• → Turkish: villa

• valli

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

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”).

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

vīlla f (genitive vīllae); first declension

1. country house; villa
2. estate, farm
3. (Medieval Latin) a city
   • [1678, du Cange, Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediæ & Infimæ Latinitatis, in quo […] , volume 3, column 1331:

     VILLA, Civitas, Gallis Ville. Ita usurpasse videtur Rutilius Numatianus in Itiner. dum oppida à civitatibus distinguit, & ortas civitates ex oppidis indicat:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)]

First-declension noun.

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam
    
  • to go to a man's house as his guest: deverti ad aliquem (ad [in] villam)
    

From Italian villa.

villa f (4th declension)

1. villa

villa f (4th declension)

1. (dialectal) wool

From Italian villa and Latin villa.

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

1. a villa, large detached house

• “villa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian villa and Latin villa.

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

1. a villa, large detached house

• “villa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

villa f (plural villas)

1. Obsolete spelling of vila

From Latin villa.

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• Syllabification: vi‧lla

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. (Argentina) synonym of villa miseria (“slum”)

• “villa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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villa c

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

• 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”)

See vill (“lost”)

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

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

• 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”)

villa c

1. (dated) incorrect perception

   Synonyms: förvirring, inbillning, misstag, villfarelse

• domvilla
• synvilla
• villospår
• villoväg

Borrowed from Italian villa.

villa (definite accusative villayı, plural villalar)

1. mansion
2. house in the country, villa