volt

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəʊlt/
• (other UK) IPA^(key): /vɒlt/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /voʊlt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈvəʉlt/, /ˈvɐʉlt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈvɐʉlt/
• Rhymes: -ɒlt, -əʊlt
• Homophone: vault (in some accents)

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

volt (plural volts)

2. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
   • 1900, Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 149, page 461:

     If the volt, ampere and ohm were taken as the absolute units, the practical units would be the ampere, begohm and begavolt, names just as convenient as ampere, coulomb and farad.

   • 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.5 Electrical Generation and Distribution System”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, pages 36–37:

     Each turbogenerator consisted of a steam turbine, powered by 900 psi of superheated steam, that was coupled by a set of reduction gears to a General Electric marine alternating-current generator operating at 1,800 rpm. Each generator had a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts of three-phase power at 450 volts and 60 hertz. The main 450-volt switchboard was energized by the two turbogenerators. The emergency switchboard, in the emergency generator room, was fed from the main switchboard through an electrical tie.

From French volte.

volt (plural volts)

1. (archaic, equestrianism) A circular movement in which the horse goes round in a small circle.
2. (archaic, fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust; a parry.

• “volt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

volt (uncountable)

1. A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
   volt:  

• LVOT, VTOL

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɔl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvɔlt]

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• Homophones: bol, vol

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *volŭtus, from Latin volūtus.

volt m (plural volts)

1. turn, round

   fer un volt ― to go for a stroll

• volta
• voltar

Named for Alessandro Volta.

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

• “volt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “volt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “volt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from English volt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolt]
• Rhymes: -olt

volt m inan

1. volt

• See voluta

• “volt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “volt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From English volt.

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volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

1. volt (unit)

• elektronvolt

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

• IPA^(key): /vɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Borrowed from English volt.

• IPA^(key): /vɔlt/

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volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

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

From English volt.

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

   Synonym: voltio

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolt]

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• Hyphenation: volt
• Rhymes: -olt

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola, later vala (same meaning).

volt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van

   Milyen volt az előadás? ― How was the show?

volt

1. past participle of van

volt (not comparable)

1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime

   az egyetem volt tanára ― the former professor of the university

volt

1. (archaic) Used after a past-tense verb form to express past perfect.
   • 1880 (translation), 411 BC (original), János Arany (translator), Aristophanes (original), A nők ünnepe (Thesmophoriazusae).^[2] English translation: 2007, George Theodoridis.^[3]

     A vén gaz asszony meg, ki hozta volt, ¶ Fut vigyorogva a férjhez s kiáltja:

     Then the old woman picks it up [literally, “who had brought it”] and rushes out to the husband! She puts on a big grin on her face and tells him straight out,

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.^[1]

volt (plural voltok)

1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)

• (the past form of van or an auxiliary particle expressing past perfect): volt 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.
• (former, previous, bygone): volt 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.
• (unit): volt 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.

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

volt n (genitive singular volts, nominative plural volt)

1. volt

• “volt” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Unadapted borrowing from English volt, itself named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, from Volta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlt/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔlt
• Hyphenation: vòlt

volt m (invariable)

1. volt

volt

1. (Old Latin) third-person singular present active indicative of volō

• “volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin vultus.

volt oblique singular, m (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

1. face

• face, visage

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (volt)

• vout

From Latin vultus.

volt m

1. figure
2. face
3. holy image

• Levy, Emil. 1923. Petit dictionnaire provençal-français. Heidelberg: Winter. Page 386.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt
• Syllabification: volt

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

volt m inan (abbreviation V)

1. alternative spelling of wolt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

volt f

1. genitive plural of volta

• volt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• vóltio (rare)

Unadapted borrowing from English volt.

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt (unit of measure)

Borrowed from French volt.

volt m (plural volți)

1. volt

Borrowed from English volt.

volt m inan (Cyrillic spelling волт)

1. volt

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

• IPA^(key): [vɔlt]

volt m inan (relational adjective voltový)

1. (physics) volt

• voltáž

• “volt”, 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

From French volte, from Italian volta (“a turn, rotation”).

volt c

1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)

   att göra/slå en volt

   to do a somersault

2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.

   Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.

   The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

• volta

• kullerbytta (“somersault on the ground”)
• saltomortal

volt c

1. volt (unit)

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

• tolv

From English volt.

volt

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

   80 meñ volt ― 80 thousand volts