English

Noun

vila ‎(plural vilas or vile)

1. (mythology) A type of fairy or nymph in Slavic mythology.
   • 1874, Elodie Lawton Mijatovic, Serbian Folklore:

     "The Vilas (fairies) live there, and they will certainly put out your eyes as they have put out mine, if you venture on their mountain."

   • 1998, Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend, page 302:

     Duly married, the couple lived for some time in peace and contentment, until one day Marko boasted that his wife was a vila, whereupon she put on her wings and flew away.

   • 1995, Albert Bates Lord, The Singer Resumes the Tale, page 52:

     She is answered, fittingly enough, by a vila, who declares that she is more beautiful than the girl.

Translations

Anagrams

• LAIV
• vail
• vial

Catalan

Noun

vila f ‎(plural viles)

1. Settlement, usually 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.

Czech

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪla

Noun

vila f

1. villa

Declension

Derived terms

• vilka
• vilový

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vīlla ‎(“country house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβi.l̪a/

Noun

vila f ‎(plural vilas)

1. village; a small town
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 159 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria fez deſcobrir hũa poſta de carne que furtaran a uũs romeus na uila de Rocamador.

     How Holy Mary caused to be found a piece of meat which was stolen from some pilgrims in the village of Rocamadour.

Related terms

• vilão

Descendants

• Galician: vila
• Portuguese: vila

Old Provençal

Alternative forms

• vilan

Etymology

From Latin vilanus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvila/

Noun

vila m ‎(oblique plural vilas, nominative singular vilas, nominative plural vila)

1. serf, countryman, peasant
   • c. 1130, Marcabru, pastorela:

     Cerca fols la folatura, / Cortes cortez’ aventura, / E·l vilas ab la vilana [...].

     The fool searches for folly, the gentleman for gentle adventure, and the peasant for his peasant-girl.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• villa (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese vila ‎(“village”), from Latin villa ‎(“country house”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.la/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.lɐ/

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. small town, village
2. country house
3. (Brazil, slang) a low-class residential area

Synonyms

• (country house): casa de campo

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) guglia
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) guila
• (Puter, Vallader) aguoglia
• (Vallader) guoglia

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *acūcla < *acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus ‎(“needle”).

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. (Sutsilvan) needle

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vila. Cognate with Bulgarian самовила ‎(samovila) and вила ‎(vila, “fairy”), Slovene vila ‎(“fairy living in the forest or in the water”), Old Russian вила ‎(vila) and Slovak víla ‎(“fairy”). According to Vasmer, non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse veiðr ‎(“hunt”) and Avestan [script needed] ‎(vayeiti, “he pursuits, frightens”)>.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋǐːla/
• Hyphenation: vi‧la

Noun

víla f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ви́ла)

1. fairy

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin villa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋîla/
• Hyphenation: vi‧la

Noun

vȉla f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ви̏ла)

1. villa

Declension

References

• Fasmer, Maks (1964–1973), “вила”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress

Slovene

Etymology

See vila (sh).

Noun

1. fairy

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hvila (obsolete since 1906)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hvíld ‎(“rest, pause”), compare Danish hvile ‎(“rest”), Old High German wīla (German Weile), Gothic 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰 ‎(ƕeila, “interval, time period”), English while.

Noun

vila c

1. a rest; relief from work, activity or exertion
2. a rest; the repose afforded by death
3. (physics) a rest; absence of motion

Declension

Related terms

• pausvila
• sista vilan
• vilorum

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish hvīla, from Old Norse hvíla, from Proto-Germanic *hwīlaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁-.

Verb

vila

1. to rest; to relieve, to give rest to
2. to rest; to take a break; to cease working for a little while, to become inactive
3. to rest; to lean or lay
4. to rest; to lie or lean or be supported

Conjugation

Derived terms

• utvilad
• vila sina ögon på
• vila ut
• vilsam

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin villa; compare Italian villa

Noun

vila f (plural vile)

1. house (large), mansion