Viola

Latin viola (“violet”)

Viola f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Violaceae – violets.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Hesperiidae – certain of the butterflies called skippers.

• (violets): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids, COM clade – clades; Malpighiales – order; Violaceae – family
• (butterflies): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Ditrysia – division; Cossina – section; Bombycina – subsection; Papilionoidea – superfamily; Hesperiiformes – series; Hesperiidae – family; Pyrginae - subfamily; Pyrgini - tribe

• (genus in Violaceae): Viola odorata (sweet violet) - type species; Viola angustifolia, Viola tricolor, Viola wikipedia - selected species; for other species see List of Viola species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (genus in Hesperiidae): Viola alicus, Viola egra, Viola minor, Viola olla, Viola violella - species

• Viola (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Viola (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Viola (Violaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Viola (Hesperiidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Viola (Violaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Viola at USDA Plants database

From Latin viola (“violet”).

• IPA^(key): /vaɪˈəʊlə/, /viˈəʊlə/, /ˈvaɪələ/

Viola

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Were you a woman as the rest goes even,
     I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
     And say, ‘Thrice welcome, drowned Viola!’

2. A comune in Cuneo province, Piedmont, Italy.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Fulton County, Arkansas.
   2. An unincorporated community in Shasta County, California.
   3. A town in Kent County, Delaware.
   4. An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
   5. An unincorporated community in Latah County, Idaho.
   6. A village in Greene Township, Mercer County, Illinois.
   7. An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Linn County, Iowa.
   8. A minor city and township in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
   9. An unincorporated community in Graves County, Kentucky.
   10. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
   11. An unincorporated community in Barry County and Stone County, Missouri.
   12. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York.
   13. A town in Warren County, Tennessee.
   14. An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.
   15. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
   16. A village in Richland County and Vernon County, Wisconsin.
   17. Other townships in Illinois and Iowa, listed under Viola Township.

• Violet

• Ivalo, oliva, voila, voilà, volia

Viola f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Viola

Viola

1. a female given name from Latin of Latin origin

From Latin viola in the 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiolɑ/, [ˈʋio̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iolɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Vi‧o‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): Vio‧la

Viola

1. a female given name from Latin
   • 1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, pages 45–46:

     Helenalle valkeni että Marjatan äidillä oli sama nimi kaksi kertaa: Viola Orvokki. Kuitenkin nimet olivat kuin toistensa vastakohtia: Viola kellanvaaleana sulatejuustopakkauksessa ja toisaalta Orvokkini tummasilmä.

     Helena realized that Marjatta's mother had the same name twice: Viola Orvokki. Yet the names were still polar opposites: Viola was yellow and white on a packet of processed cheese and toisaalta Orvokkini tummasilmä [song].

• Viola is the 211^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,791 female individuals (and as a middle name to 4,403 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Ivalo, Olavi, loiva, lovia, olvia, valio, valoi

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi̯oːla/, [viˈoːla], [ˈvjoːla]

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Borrowed from Italian viola.

Viola f (genitive Viola, plural Violen)

1. (music) synonym of Bratsche

Borrowed from Latin viola.

Viola f (genitive Viola, plural Violen)

1. (botany) alternative form of Viole (“violet”)

• “Viola” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Viola” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Viola on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Viola” in Duden online
• “Viola” in Duden online

The given name derived from Latin viola (“a violet”). The surname can be matronymic, but more often occupational, for a dyer of violet cloth, or a player of the viola.

• IPA^(key): /viˈɔ.la/, /ˈvjɔ.la/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: Vi‧ò‧la, Viò‧la

Viola f

1. a female given name from Latin

Viola m or f by sense

1. a surname

• oliva, ovali, voilà, volai

• IPA^(key): /ˈviɔɫa/
• Homophone: viola

Viola f

1. a female given name

• “Viola”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Occupational surname for a viola player, from Late Latin vitula, or for a dyer or seller of violet fabric.

Viola m or f by sense

1. a surname

From Latin viola (“violet”). First recorded in Sweden in 1844.

• IPA^(key): /vɪ²uːla/

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Viola c (genitive Violas)

1. a female given name from Latin

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN 57 207 females with the given name Viola living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.