ville

ville (plural villes)

1. (US, military, historical) A Vietnamese village.
   • 1989, Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet, page 247:

     The fighting holes and trenches scattered in and around each ville indicate battle after battle - some only planned, others fought. We move toward a tree-lined ville.

   • 1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried:

     On Halloween, this real hot spooky night, the dude paints up his body all different colors and puts on this weird mask and hikes over to a ville and goes trick-or-treating almost stark naked, just boots and balls and an M-16.

From Latin villa.

• IPA^(key): /vij/

ville f (plural villes)

1. city
2. town

• citai

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, cognate with English will, German wollen. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, which is also the source of Latin volō.

• IPA^(key): /vilə/, [ˈʋilə], [ˈʋelə]

ville (present tense vil, past tense ville, past participle villet)

1. (transitive) to want to, be willing to
2. (auxiliary, in the present tense) shall, will (with the infinitive, expresses future tense)
3. (auxiliary, in the past tense) should, would (with the infinitive, expresses conditional mood)

• “ville” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ville,4” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

ville

1. illative singular of vile

Inherited from Middle French ville, from Old French ville, vile, inherited from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of villa.

• IPA^(key): /vil/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /vɪl/
• Rhymes: -il

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ville f (plural villes)

1. town, city

   Synonym: cité

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

ville f pl

1. plural of villa

• velli

ville

1. vocative singular of villus

From Old French ville, vile.

ville f (plural villes)

1. city or town

• French: ville

From Old French ville, from Latin vīlla (“country house”).

ville f (plural villes)

1. town
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 540:

     Trachier la ville par Torteval.

     To seek for the town by way of Torteval.

ville

1. definite singular of vill
2. plural of vill

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

ville (present tense vil, simple past ville, past participle villet, present participle villende)

1. to want to, be willing to, shall, will, should
2. would

• “ville” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

ville

1. definite singular of vill
2. plural of vill

ville

1. past of vilja

• vile
• vill (rare)

From Latin vīlla.

ville oblique singular, f (oblique plural villes, nominative singular ville, nominative plural villes)

1. city or town

• Franc-Comtois: vèlle
• Middle French: ville
  • French: ville
• Norman: ville

• cité
• vilage

• IPA^(key): /²vɪlːɛ/

ville

1. past indicative of vilja