English

Proper noun

Villa

1. (soccer) Aston Villa Football Club, a football club based in Birmingham
   • 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

     Olsson and Herd tussled off the ball at a free-kick before Olsson fell to the ground. Assistant referee Darren Cann signalled for a penalty and Dowd sent Herd off to the amazement of the Villa faithful.

English

Noun

villa ‎(plural villas or villae)

1. (plural "villas") 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, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     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. (Britain, plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached, in a middle class street.
3. (Ancient Rome, plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

Translations

See also

• dacha

Faroese

Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, plural villur)

1. aberration
2. mistake, error

Declension

Synonyms

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

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *villa, a loan from a Baltic language, compare e.g. Lithuanian vilna, Proto-Balto-Slavic*wilˀnāˀ.

Noun

villa

1. wool

Declension

Derived terms

• villainen
• villava

Compounds

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

Etymology 2

From a Germanic language

Noun

villa

1. (rare) villa

Synonyms

• huvila

Anagrams

• valli

French

Pronunciation

Noun

villa f ‎(plural villas)

1. villa
2. house in the country

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvilːɒ]
• Hyphenation: vil‧la

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian vile.

Noun

villa ‎(plural villák)

1. fork

Declension

Derived terms

• villányi

(Compound words):

• vasvilla

Etymology 2

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

Noun

villa ‎(plural villák)

1. villa (a house, larger and more expensive than average)

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtla/

  Rhymes: -ɪtla

Noun

villa f ‎(genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)

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

Derived terms

• villugjarn

Synonyms

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

Etymology 2

From Latin villa ‎(“villa, estate, large country residence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪlːa/

  Rhymes: -ɪlːa

Noun

villa f ‎(genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)

1. villa ^syn.

Synonyms

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪtla/

  Rhymes: -ɪtla

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.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• vēlla (rustic)

Etymology

Possibly from *vīcula, diminutive form of vīcus ‎(“row of houses”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːl.la/

Noun

vīlla f ‎(genitive vīllae); first declension

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

vīllā

1. ablative singular of vīlla

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• villa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “villa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam
    
  • to go to a man's house as his guest: deverti ad aliquem (ad [in] villam)
    

Latvian

Noun

villa f (4th declension)

1. villa

Declension

Noun

villa f (4th declension)

1. (dialectal) wool

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

villa f (plural villas)

1. Obsolete spelling of vila

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin villa

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 granted by the king.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

villa c

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

Declension

Verb

villa ‎(present villar, preterite villade, supine villat, imperative villa)

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

Conjugation

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