villa

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

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, chapter 3/6/1, “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 a middle class street.
3. (Ancient Rome) a country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

Translations

a house used as a retreat

• Arabic: فيلا (ar) (fīlā) f, دارة (ar) (dāra) f
• Belarusian: віла (be) (víla) f, дача (be) (dáča) f
• Bulgarian: вила (bg) (víla) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 別墅 (cmn), 别墅 (cmn) (biéshù)

• Czech: vila (cs) f
• Finnish: huvila (fi)
• French: villa (fr) f
• German: Villa (de) f
• Hebrew: וילה (he)
• Japanese: 別荘 (ja) (べっそう, bessō), ビラ (ja) (bira), ヴィラ (ja) (vira), ヴィッラ (ja) (virra)
• Korean: 별장 (ko) (byeoljang), 빌라 (ko) (billa)
• Macedonian: вила (mk) (víla) f
• Persian: ویلا (fa) (villâ, vilâ), کوشک (fa) (kušk)

• Polish: willa (pl) f
• Romanian: vilă (ro) f
• Russian: вилла (ru) (vílla) f, дача (ru) (dáča) f, загородный дом (ru) (zágorodnyj dom) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вила (sh) f

  Roman: vila (sh) f

• Slovak: vila (sk) f
• Slovene: vila (sl) f
• Spanish: villa (es) f
• Tajik: вилла (tg) (villa), кӯшк (tg) (küšk)
• Turkish: villa (tr)
• Ukrainian: вілла (uk) (vílla) f, дача (uk) (dáča) f
• Vietnamese: biệt thự (vi)

See also

• dacha

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Faroese

Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, plural villur)

1. aberration
2. mistake, error

Declension

f1	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	villa	villan	villur	villurnar
Accusative	villu	villuna	villur	villurnar
Dative	villu	villuni	villum	villunum
Genitive	villu	villunnar	villa	villanna

Synonyms

• (mistake): mistak, feilur, brek, lýti, brongl

Verb

villa (third person singular past indicative vilti, supine vilt)

1. to stray, to get astray
2. to err

Conjugation

   Conjugation of villa

villa, v-9
number	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	all
Indicative	eg	tú	hann / hon tað	vit, tit, teir / tær / tey tygum
Present	villi	villir	villir	villa
Past	vilti	vilti	vilti	viltu
Imperative		tú		tit
Present	—	vill !	—	villið !
Infinitive	villa
Pres. part.	villandi
Past part. a5	viltur
Supine	vilt

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Finnish

Declension

Declension of villa (type kala) singular plural nominative villa villat genitive villan villojen villain1 partitive villaa villoja accusative villa villan villat inessive villassa villoissa elative villasta villoista illative villaan villoihin adessive villalla villoilla ablative villalta villoilta allative villalle villoille essive villana villoina translative villaksi villoiksi instructive – villoin abessive villatta villoitta comitative – villoineen 1) Rare.

Etymology 1

A loan from a Germanic language, compare ull, Proto-Germanic wullō (wool).

Noun

villa

1. wool

Derived terms

• villainen
• villava

Compounds

• villahousut
• villalanka
• villapaita
• villapipo
• villasaksirapu
• villasarvikuono
• villasukka

Etymology 2

From a Germanic language

Noun

villa

1. (rare) villa

Synonyms

• huvila

Anagrams

• valli

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvilːɒ/
• Hyphenation: vil‧la

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian vile.

Noun

villa (plural villák)

1. fork

Declension

declension of villa singular plural nominative villa villák accusative villát villákat dative villának villáknak instrumental villával villákkal causal-final villáért villákért translative villává villákká terminative villáig villákig essive-formal villaként villákként essive-modal - - inessive villában villákban superessive villán villákon adessive villánál villáknál illative villába villákba sublative villára villákra allative villához villákhoz elative villából villákból delative villáról villákról ablative villától villáktól

possessives of villa possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. villám villáim 2nd person sing. villád villáid 3rd person sing. villája villái 1st person plural villánk villáink 2nd person plural villátok villáitok 3rd person plural villájuk villáik

Derived terms

• villányi

Compound words

• vasvilla

Etymology 2

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

Noun

villa (plural villák)

1. villa

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Icelandic

Etymology 1

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Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, plural villur)

1. a mistake, a error ^syn.
2. heresy ^syn.

Derived terms

• villugjarn

Synonyms

• (mistake): ^def. skekkja
• (heresy): ^def. villutrú

Etymology 2

From the Latin word villa meaning "villa", "estate" or "large country residence".

Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, plural villur)

1. villa ^syn.

Synonyms

• (villa): ^def. einbýlishús n, setur n, sveitasetur n

Etymology 3

Verb

villa weak verb (third person singular past indicative villti, supine villt)

1. (transitive, governs the dative) to misguide, to lead astray, to deceive ^syn.

Derived terms

• villa á sér heimildir
• villa sýn
• villa um fyrir
• villast (to lose one's way)
• villast á
• villandi (misleading)

Synonyms

• (lead astray): ^def. blekkja

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin vīlla "country house"

Noun

villa f (plural ville)

1. mansion
2. detached house, residence
3. house in the country, villa

Anagrams

• valli

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Latin

Etymology

Probably contracted from a diminutive of vīcus (“row of houses”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈwiːl.la/

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Noun

vīlla (genitive vīllae); f, first declension

1. country house; villa
2. estate
3. vocative singular of vīlla

vīllā

1. ablative singular of vīlla

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	vīlla	vīllae
genitive	vīllae	vīllārum
dative	vīllae	vīllīs
accusative	vīllam	vīllās
ablative	vīllā	vīllīs
vocative	vīlla	vīllae

Derived terms

• vīllāris
• vīllāticus
• vīllula

Descendants

• English: villa, village
• French: villa, ville, village
• German: Weiler
• Italian: villa
• Old Portuguese; vila
• Portuguese: vila

• Romanian: vilă
• Russian: вилла
• Sardinian: bidha
• Spanish: villa
• Walloon: veye, viyaedje, Viyé

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Spanish

Noun

villa f (plural villas)

1. small town
2. villa
3. settlement with a minimum of five thousand inhabitants (bigger than a town but smaller that a city) that has asked for the title officially. Previously, this title was grated by the king.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

villa c

1. a villa, a house; a free-standing family house of any size but the very smallest

Declension

Declension of villa

	singular		plural
common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	villa	villan	villor	villorna
genitive	villas	villans	villors	villornas

Verb

villa

1. to confuse (someone); causing a feeling of being lost

Conjugation

Conjugation of villa

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	villa	villas
Present tense	villar	villas
Past tense	villade	villades
Supine	villat	villats
Imperative	villa	—
Present participle	villande
Past participle	villad

Related terms

• förvilla
• villa bort - to cause someone to loose his/her way; to confuse someone completely
• villa bort sig - to loose track of one's location; to get lost