via

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪə/, /ˈviː.ə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə, -iːə

Borrowed from Latin via (“road”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of way. The sense in electronics is also explained as vertical interconnect access.

via (plural vias or viae)

1. A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
2. (electronics) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.

Borrowed from Latin viā (“by the way (of)”), ablative singular of via (“way, road”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

• viâ

via

1. By way of; passing through.

   They drove from New York to Los Angeles via Omaha.

   You can enter the building via the western gate.

2. By (means of); using.

   I'll send you the information via e-mail.

   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

   • 2005, “Capacity Bounds For MIMO Poisson Channels With Intersymbol Interference, Appendix C”, in Enrico Forestieri, editor, Optical Communication Theory and Techniques, →ISBN, page 44:

     Under the assumptions of Proposition 5 the entropies h(τ) and H(k) are related via the following equation: […]

• via-satellite

via

1. (obsolete) Away! Be off!

• A-IV, AIV, AVI, Avi, IVA, Iva, Vai, avi, avi-, vai

via

1. Alternative spelling of vier (“four”)

From Latin via.

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• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -ia

via f (plural vies)

1. lane
2. way, path
3. railway track

   Synonym: via fèrria

4. channel

• vianant
• viari

via

1. via, by way of

• “via” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “via”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “via” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “via” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin via.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːæ/, /ˈviæ/

via

1. via; by way of; passing through.

   Familien kørte til Aalborg via Aarhus.

   The family drove to Aalborg via Aarhus.

2. via, by means of, using.

   Bestillingen kan betales via smartphone

   The order can be paid for via smartphone

• (passing through): over, gennem
• (by means of): ved hjælp af, gennem

• “via” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”), of uncertain origin, plausibly cognate with vehere (“to conduct”). Entered Dutch in the Latin phrase per via de (“by way of”), after the Portuguese por via de.

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via

1. via, through, by way of

   Synonym: langs

2. by (means of); using (a medium)

   Synonym: per

• via via (“using various intermediaries”)

From vi +‎ -a.

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: vi‧a

via (accusative singular vian, plural viaj, accusative plural viajn)

1. (possessive) your, yours

From Proto-Central Pacific *via, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀaq (compare Malay birah), from Proto-Austronesian *biʀaq.

via

1. alocasia

Borrowed from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): via

via

1. via

   Synonym: kautta

• “via”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

• AVI, avi, iva, vai

Inherited from Latin vīta.

via f (plural vies) (ORB, broad)

1. life

• vie in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• via in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Borrowed from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”), of uncertain origin, plausibly cognate with vehō (“convey”).

• IPA^(key): /vja/

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via

1. via, through, by way of

• “via”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

via

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ver

Ultimately from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”). Cognate with English via, Danish via, Dutch via, Norwegian Bokmål via.

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via

1. via, by way of

   Synonym: über

2. by way of, by means of

   Synonyms: durch, mittels, mithilfe von

• Via

• “via” in Duden online
• “via” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Latin via.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: vì‧a

via f (plural vie)

1. street, path

   Synonym: strada

2. way, route
3. means (to an end)
4. tract (in the body)

   per via orale ― orally (literally, “through oral tract”)

5. start (of a race)

• viario

via

1. away
2. out

• via¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• via² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -avi, -iva, IVA, Iva, avi, vai

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• From Proto-Italic *wijā, from Proto-Indo-European *wih₁eh₂-,^[1] from *weyh₁- (“to pursue, be strong”). Cognate with Lithuanian vyti (“to pursue”). See also vīs, invītus, invītō, Ancient Greek οἶμος (oîmos).
• Or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰyeh₂-, from *weǵʰ- (whence vehō and English way).^[2] This hypothesis is rejected by De Vaan.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/,

via f (genitive viae); first declension

1. road, street, path

   Synonym: platea

2. highway

   Antonym: sēmita

3. way, method, manner, mode
4. the right way
5. (figuratively) journey, course, route

   Synonym: iter

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.30.19:

     viam aquilae in caelō viam colubrī super petram viam nāvis in mediō marī et viam virī in adulēscentulā

     The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

First-declension noun.

• (road): iter

• via agrāria (“lane”)

• bivium
• triviālis

• “via”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “via”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• via in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• via in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam
    
  • the road is the same length: tantundem viae est
    
  • to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
    
  • to make a gravel path: substruere viam glarea (Liv. 41. 27)
    
  • a street, a made road: via strata
    
  • a well-trodden, much-frequented way: via trita
    
  • to make a road: viam munire
    
  • to open a route: viam patefacere, aperire
    
  • to cut one's way (through the enemies' ranks): ferro viam facere (per confertos hostes)
    
  • to obstruct a road; to close a route: viam intercludere
    
  • a road leads somewhere: via fert, ducit aliquo
    
  • to set out on a journey: in viam se dare
    
  • to set out on a journey: viae se committere
    
  • to enter upon a route; to take a road: viam ingredi, inire (also metaphorically)
    
  • to turn aside from the right way; to deviate: de via declinare, deflectere (also metaphorically)
    
  • make way for any one: (de via) decedere alicui
    
  • to set out by the Appian road: Appia via proficisci
    
  • to direct a person who has lost his way: erranti viam monstrare
    
  • to continue one's journey, pursue one's course: viam persequi (also metaphorically)
    
  • to accomplish a long journey: longam viam conficere
    
  • weary with travelling; way-worn: fessus de via
    
  • in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum
    
  • to bring a person back to the right way: in viam reducere aliquem
    
  • to return to the right way: in viam redire
    
  • to enter upon a career: viam vitae ingredi (Flacc. 42. 105)
    
  • to give a scientific explanation of a thing: artificio et via tradere aliquid
    
  • to proceed, carry on a discussion logically: ratione et via, via et ratione progredi, disputare (Or. 33. 116)
    
  • to walk in the ways of virtue: viam virtutis ingredi (Off. 1. 32. 118)
    
  • to receive tenders for the construction of temples, highroads: locare aedes, vias faciendas (Phil. 9. 7. 16)
    
• “via”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

From Latin via.

via

1. via

• viet
• vigde, vidde (simple past)
• vigd, vidd (past participle)

via

1. inflection of vie:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• “via” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin via.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiː.ɑ/

via

1. via

From earlier form vigja, from Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

• vie (e-infinitive)
• vigja (non-standard since 1938)

• IPA^(key): /²ʋiː.ɑ/

via (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

1. (transitive) to dedicate, commit
2. (transitive) to consecrate, to hallow
3. (transitive) to wed

• ektevia
• innvia
• prestevia

• ve
• vigsel, vigsle

• “via” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• avi, vai

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

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• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: vi‧a

From Old Galician-Portuguese via, from Latin via (“road”), which see for details.

via f (plural vias)

1. a way; a path

   Synonym: caminho

2. (rail transport) gauge (distance between the rails of a railway)

   Synonym: bitola

3. medium (means or channel by which an aim is achieved)

   Synonyms: meio, veículo

4. an example of a document

Learned borrowing from Latin viā (“by way of”).

via

1. via (by way of; passing through)
2. via (by means of; using a medium)

via f (plural vias)

1. (historical) via (road built by the ancient Romans)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

via

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ver

Borrowed from French and Latin via.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

via (+accusative)

1. via, by

From an older form vie, from Latin vīvere, present active infinitive of vīvō, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (“to live, be alive”).

• vie — regional, archaic

• IPA^(key): /viˈa/

a via (third-person singular present viază, past participle viat) 1st conj.

1. (rare) to have life; to live, exist
2. (of intangibles, such as emotions and beliefs) to endure

• dăinui
• dura
• exista
• fi
• trăi
• viețui

• viere

• învia
• viabil

Form of the adjective viu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

via

1. definite feminine singular nominative/accusative of viu (“live, alive”)

Form of the noun vie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

via

1. definite singular nominative/accusative of vie (“the vineyard”)

• veia (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Latin via.

via f (plural vias)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) road, street; way

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan: road, street) strada

via

1. via, over, by, through

• IVA, avi