Viola
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Viola f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Violaceae – violets.
- A taxonomic genus within the family Hesperiidae – certain of the butterflies called skippers.
Hypernyms edit
- (violets): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order; Violaceae - family
- (butterflies): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Hesperiiformes - series; Hesperiidae - family; Pyrginae - subfamily; Pyrgini - tribe
Hyponyms edit
- (genus in Violaceae): Viola odorata (sweet violet) - type species; Viola angustifolia, Viola tricolor, Viola wikipedia - selected species; for other species see List of Viola species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (genus in Hesperiidae): Viola alicus, Viola egra, Viola minor, Viola olla, Viola violella - species
References edit
- Viola (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Viola (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Viola (Violaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Viola (Hesperiidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Viola (Violaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Viola at USDA Plants database
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Viola
- A female given name from Latin
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- Were you a woman as the rest goes even,
I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
And say, ‘Thrice welcome, drowned Viola!’
- A town in Arkansas
- A town in Delaware
- A village in Illinois
- A city in Kansas
- A hamlet in New York
- A town in Tennessee
- A village in Wisconsin
Related terms edit
Translations edit
female given name
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Proper noun edit
Viola f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Viola
Declension edit
Danish edit
Proper noun edit
Viola
- a female given name from Latin of Latin origin
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin viola in the 19th century.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Viola
- a female given name from Latin
- 1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, pages 45–46:
- Helenalle valkeni että Marjatan äidillä oli sama nimi kaksi kertaa: Viola Orvokki. Kuitenkin nimet olivat kuin toistensa vastakohtia: Viola kellanvaaleana sulatejuustopakkauksessa ja toisaalta Orvokkini tummasilmä.
- Helena realized that Marjatta's mother had the same name twice: Viola Orvokki. Yet the names were still polar opposites: Viola was yellow and white on a packet of processed cheese and toisaalta Orvokkini tummasilmä [song].
Declension edit
Inflection of Viola (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | Viola | Violat | ||
genitive | Violan | Violojen | ||
partitive | Violaa | Violoja | ||
illative | Violaan | Violoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Viola | Violat | ||
accusative | nom. | Viola | Violat | |
gen. | Violan | |||
genitive | Violan | Violojen Violainrare | ||
partitive | Violaa | Violoja | ||
inessive | Violassa | Violoissa | ||
elative | Violasta | Violoista | ||
illative | Violaan | Violoihin | ||
adessive | Violalla | Violoilla | ||
ablative | Violalta | Violoilta | ||
allative | Violalle | Violoille | ||
essive | Violana | Violoina | ||
translative | Violaksi | Violoiksi | ||
abessive | Violatta | Violoitta | ||
instructive | — | Violoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Viola is the 211th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,791 female individuals (and as a middle name to 4,403 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
Viola f (genitive Viola, plural Violen)
Declension edit
Declension of Viola [feminine]
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
Viola f (genitive Viola, plural Violen)
Declension edit
Declension of Viola [feminine]
Further reading edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
The given name derived from Latin viola (“a violet”). The surname can be matronymic, but more often occupational, for a dyer of violet cloth, or a player of the viola.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Viola f
- a female given name from Latin
Proper noun edit
Viola m or f by sense
- a surname
References edit
- ^ Viola in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Viola f (genitive singular Violy, nominative plural Violy, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension edit
Declension of Viola
Further reading edit
- “Viola”, 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, 2023
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Occupational surname for a viola player, from Late Latin vitula, or for a dyer or seller of violet fabric.
Proper noun edit
Viola m or f by sense
- a surname
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin viola (“violet”). First recorded in Sweden in 1844.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Viola c (genitive Violas)
- a female given name from Latin
References edit
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN 57 207 females with the given name Viola living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.