villa

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə

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

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.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     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) A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
   • 1905, E. Nesbit, chapter 1, in The Railway Children, page 1:

     They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.

3. (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.

• Lake Villa
• Villa Grove

• dacha

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

villa (plural villae)

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

• Viall

Via Italian villa, from Latin villa.

villa c (singular definite villaen, plural indefinite villaer)

1. a villa (detached house with garden around, intended for living, often larger, individually built, older house)

• “villa” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

From Proto-Finnic *villa (compare Estonian vill), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *wílˀnāˀ (compare Lithuanian vi̇̀lna, Polish wełna), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (compare English wool, French laine).

villa

1. wool

• “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 1 July 2023

From Italian villa.

villa (rare)

1. synonym of huvila (“villa”)

   Ruoholahden villat

   Ruoholahti Villas

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

• “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 1 July 2023

• 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

• → Persian: ویلا (vilâ)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈvilːɒ]

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• Hyphenation: vil‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian vile.

villa (plural villák)

1. fork

   Coordinate terms: kés, kanál, evőpálcika

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

villa (plural villák)

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

• (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.

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

   Synonym: skekkja (f)

2. heresy

   Synonym: villutrú (f)

• villugjarn

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlːa/

  Rhymes: -ɪlːa

villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)

1. villa

   Synonyms: 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. to misguide, to lead astray, to deceive [with dative]

   Synonym: blekkja

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

Declension of villa (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	villa	villat
genitive	villan	villoin
partitive	villaa	villoja
illative	villaa	villoi
inessive	villaas	villois
elative	villast	villoist
allative	villalle	villoille
adessive	villaal	villoil
ablative	villalt	villoilt
translative	villaks	villoiks
essive	villanna, villaan	villoinna, villoin
exessive1)	villant	villoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• 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, “Seconda giornata - Atto terzo [Second day - Third act]”, in La Fiera, Scena nona; republished in La Fiera, commedia di Michelagnolo Buonarruoti il giovane, e La Tancia, commedia rusticale del medesimo‎^[4], Florence: Stamperia di S. A. R., 1726, page 79:

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

     [Una villa ha colei qua presa 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, “Prosa seconda - 24 gennaio 1793”, in Misogallo [The French-hater]‎^[5], London, Avvenimenti, page 27:

     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 [4^th to 5^th century CE], “Onde sia più utile i cavalieri trarre, o della cittade, o della villa [Whence it is more useful to take knights: from the city, or from the countryside]” (chapter 3), Libro primo [First book], in Bono Giamboni, transl., Dell'arte della guerra [On the art of war], translation of Dē rē mīlitārī by Pūblius Flāvius Vegetius Renātus (in Late Latin); republished as Di Vegezio Flavio, Dell’arte della guerra libri IV - volgarizzamento di Bono Giamboni‎^[6], Florence: Giovanni Marenigh, 1815, page 8:

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

        [original: Sequitur utrum dē agrīs an dē urbibus, ūtilior tīrō sit requīrāmus.]

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

      • 15^th century, Leon Battista Alberti, I libri della famiglia‎^[7]; republished in Leon Battista Alberti - Opere volgari‎^[8], Bari: Gius. Laterza & figli, 1960, 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 [2^nd century], “Ragionamento primo [First treatise]”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe [The bucolic loves of Daphnis and Chloe]‎^[9], translation of Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη [Dáphnis kaì Khlóē, Daphnis and Chloe] by Λόγγος [Lóngos, Longus] (in Ancient Greek); republished in Opere del commendatore Annibal Caro, volume 7, Milan: Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1812, page 6:

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

        [original: Ταύτης τῆς πόλεως ὅσον ἀπὸ σταδίων διᾱκοσίων ἀγρὸς ἦν ἀνδρὸς εὐδαίμονος, κτῆμα κάλλιστον]

        Taútēs tês póleōs hóson apò stadíōn diākosíōn agròs ên andròs eudaímonos, ktêma kálliston

        Outside of Mytilene—a little over two miles—was the farm of a very wealthy gentleman, a wonderful and vast property

      • 1605 [1304–1309], “De’ luoghi abitevoli da eleggere: delle corti, e case, e di quelle cose, le quali sono necessarie all’abitazion della villa, e prima del conoscimento della bontà del luogo abitevole in comune [Of habitable places to choose; of courtyards, and houses, and the things which are necessary to inhabit the farm; and before [that], of the knowledge of the common habitable area]” (chapter 1), Libro primo [First book], in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell’agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture]‎^[10], Florence: published by Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), page 4:

        Imperciocchè ’l coltivamento della villa richiede, per li suoi continovi affanni, e fatiche, spezialmente fortezza degli abitanti […]

        [original: Quoniam cultus rūris propter continuōs labōrēs eius praecipuē fortitūdinem habitātōrum quaerit […]]

        Since the cultivation of the farm highly demands, due to its continuous trials and tribulations, strength of the inhabitants […]

   3. village, small town
      • late 13^th century to 1347 (exact period unknown), “Del naturale inchinamento in quanto è alla patria [On the natural inclination to what concerns the motherland]” (chapter 6), Distinzione seconda [Second distinction], in Bartolomeo da San Concordio, transl., Ammaestramenti degli antichi [Teachings of the ancestors]‎^[11], translation of Dē documentīs antīquōrum by the same author (in Medieval Latin), Seneca ad Elbia de consolatione (section 11); republished, Milan: Società tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 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.

        [original: Maxima pars istī̆us turbae patriā caret: ex mūnicipiīs et colōniīs suīs, ex totō dēnique orbe terrārum cōnflūxērunt.]

        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, chapter XX (chapter 20), Libro secondo [Second book], in Gli Asolani [The Asolani]‎^[12]; collected in Carlo Dionisotti, editor, Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime (I classici italiani TEA Tascabili), Milan: Editori Associati, 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
      • 1342–1360, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Come l'autore vede dipinto nella bella sala la gloria del mondo in atto d'una donna [The author sees in the beautiful hall a depiction of the world's glory in the gesture of a woman]” (chapter 6), in Amorosa visione [Love vision]‎^[13]; republished, Florence: Ig[nazio] Moutier, 1833, page 27:

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

        [Né credo […] ]

        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.

      • 1493–1527, Ludovico Ariosto, [untitled work], stanza 5; republished as “Frammento I [Fragment I]”, in Giuseppe Fatini, editor, Ludovico Ariosto - Lirica‎^[14], Bari: Gius[eppe] Laterza & figli, 1924:

        nel tempo ch’a Silvestro dar volea
        Costantino a guardar quella gran villa;
        villa dirò, ch’allor villa divenne
        la cittá che del mondo il scettro tenne.

        [ […] la città che del mondo il scettro tenne.]

        in the time when Constantine wanted to give that town to Sylvester to guard. I will say town, because the city that had held the scepter of the world then became a town.

• villa comunale

• → Polish: willa
• → Turkish: villa

• valli

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

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”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiːl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvil.la]

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 quotation)]

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^[15], 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. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of vila.
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[16], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 80:

     Assim fallavam alguns indivíduos pertencentes a diversas cathegorias da pequena sociedade da villa de X∗∗∗ […]

     Thus spoke some individuals belonging to various classes of the small society of the town of X∗∗∗ […]

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. (Paraguay, Rioplatense) ellipsis of villa miseria (“slum”)

• “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], 10 December 2024

• IPA^(key): /²vɪla/

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Latin vīlla

villa c

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

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