viol

Borrowed from Middle French viole, from Old French viol, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). Doublet of viola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ.əl/
• Homophones: vial, vile

viol (plural viols)

1. (music) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold

   Synonyms: viola d'amore, viola da gamba, (informal) gamba

   Hypernym: stringed instrument

   Hyponyms: Baryton trios, chest of viols, division viol, lyra viol, pardessus de viole, triple contrabass viol, viola bastarde, violone

2. (nautical) A large rope used to manipulate the anchor

• 2010. Stradivari. Stewart Pollens. Pg. 143.

viol (third-person singular simple present viols, present participle violing, simple past and past participle violed)

1. To play the viol.
   • 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:

     “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.

   • 1914, Thomas Hardy, Seen by the Waits:

     Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing […]

From Latin violō (“to violate”).

• IPA^(key): /vjɔl/

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viol m (plural viols)

1. a rape

• violence
• violer

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

From Latin violō (“to violate”).

viol m (plural viols)

1. (Jersey) rape

Borrowed from French viol.

• IPA^(key): /viˈol/

viol n (plural violuri)

1. rape, violation

• batjocorire
• necinstire
• siluire
• violare

• a viola
• a răpi

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈuːl/

viol c

1. violet (the flower)

• oliv