vila

English

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Slavic fairies

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (dated) veela

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian víla and Slovene vila.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈviːlə/

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

vila (plural vilas or vile)

1. (Slavic mythology) A type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology, similar in some ways to a fairy or nymph.
   • 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."

   • 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.

   • 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• LAIV, VALI, Vail, Vali, Vial, vail, vali, vial

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vīlla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

vila f (plural viles)

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

Derived terms

• vilatà

Further reading

• “vila” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɪla

Etymology 1

Noun

vila f (related adjective vilový, diminutive vilka)

1. villa

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

vila

1. inflection of vít:
   1. feminine singular past active participle
   2. neuter plural past active participle

Further reading

• vila in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• vila in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. town; urban settlement smaller than a cidade (“city”) and larger than a aldea (“village”), which usually acts as the economic and administrative capital of a comarca
2. (archaic) village

   Synonym: aldea

3. country house

   Synonym: casa de campo

Derived terms

Related terms

• vilar

References

• “vila” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vila” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vila” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vila” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vila” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vīlla (“country house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβi.l̪a/

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. village; a small town
   • 13th century CE, 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 Occitan

Alternative forms

• vilan

Etymology

From Latin villānus.

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

vila

Wikipedia ^pt

Alternative forms

• villa (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”). Cognate with Galician vila, Spanish and Italian villa, and French ville.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ilɐ
• Hyphenation: vi‧la

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. town

   Coordinate terms: aldeia, cidade

2. country house

   Synonym: casa de campo

3. (Brazil, colloquial) a low-class residential area, like row houses, but in a self-managed community around a cul-de-sac

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”).

Noun

vila f (plural vilas)

1. (Sutsilvan) needle

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited 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 𐬬𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vaiieⁱti, “he pursuits, frightens”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

víla f (Cyrillic spelling ви́ла)

1. vila (a type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology)
2. fairy

Declension

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "good fairy"): zla vještica

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin villa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vȉla f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ла)

1. villa

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

vila (Cyrillic spelling вила)

1. inflection of viti:
   1. feminine singular active past participle
   2. neuter plural active past participle

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вила”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *vila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋíːla/

Noun

vȋla f

1. vila (a type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology)
2. fairy

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin villa.

Noun

vȋla f

1. villa

Further reading

• “vila”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Alternative forms

• hvila (obsolete since 1906)

Pronunciation

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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

Etymology 2

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

Verb

vila (present vilar, preterite vilade, supine vilat, imperative 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

References

• vila in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vila in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vila in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tsonga

Verb

vila

1. to boil

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin villa; compare Italian villa.

Noun

Venetian Wikipedia has an article on:

vila

Wikipedia ^vec

vila f (plural vile)

1. house (large), mansion