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/

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• Rhymes: -aɪəl
• 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

   • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 30:

     He sayd that y^e ground opened, and he was brought into strange places underground, where they used musicall Instruments, violls, and Lutes, such (he sayd) as Mr. Thomas did play on.

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 to 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

   Synonyms: batjocorire, necinstire, siluire, violare

• a viola
• a răpi

• feijel, phiol, fijol, fiohl, fiool, fiola, fiole, fiåll, fijoll, wiol, vijol, viool (16th century spellings)

Ultimately from Latin viola. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fiol.

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈuːl/

viol c

1. violet (the flower)
   • 1990, Sven-Ingvars, David Alexandre Winter, “Sommar och sol [Summer and sun]”‎^[1]:

     Sommar, sommar och sol. Havet och vinden, och doft av kaprifol. Sommar, sommar och sol. En himmel så blå som viol.

     Summer, summer and sun. The sea and the wind, and scent of honeysuckle. Summer, summer and sun. A sky as blue as violet.

• violett (“violet [color]”)

• viol in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• viol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• viol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• oliv