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See also: -ville and Ville

English

Noun

ville (plural villes)

  1. (US, military, historical) A Vietnamese village.
    • 1989, Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet, page 247:
      The fighting holes and trenches scattered in and around each ville indicate battle after battle - some only planned, others fought. We move toward a tree-lined ville.
    • 1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried:
      On Halloween, this real hot spooky night, the dude paints up his body all different colors and puts on this weird mask and hikes over to a ville and goes trick-or-treating almost stark naked, just boots and balls and an M-16.

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin villa.

Pronunciation

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

  1. city
  2. town

Synonyms

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, cognate with English will, German wollen. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, which is also the source of Latin volō.

Pronunciation

Verb

ville (present tense vil, past tense ville, past participle villet)

  1. (transitive) to want to, be willing to
  2. (auxiliary, in the present tense) shall, will (with the infinitive, expresses future tense)
  3. (auxiliary, in the past tense) should, would (with the infinitive, expresses conditional mood)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

Estonian

Noun

ville

  1. illative singular of vile

French

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ville, from Old French ville, vile, inherited from Latin vīlla (country house). Doublet of villa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vil/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /vɪl/
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

  1. town, city
    Synonym: cité

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Noun

ville f pl

  1. plural of villa

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

ville

  1. vocative singular of villus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ville, vile.

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

  1. city or town

Descendants

  • French: ville

Norman

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Wikipedia nrm

Etymology

From Old French ville, from Latin vīlla (country house).

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

  1. town
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 540:
      Trachier la ville par Torteval.
      To seek for the town by way of Torteval.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

ville

  1. definite singular of vill
  2. plural of vill

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

Verb

ville (present tense vil, simple past ville, past participle villet, present participle villende)

  1. to want to, be willing to, shall, will, should
  2. would

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

ville

  1. definite singular of vill
  2. plural of vill

Verb

ville

  1. past of vilja

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin vīlla.

Noun

ville oblique singularf (oblique plural villes, nominative singular ville, nominative plural villes)

  1. city or town

Descendants

See also

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

ville

  1. past indicative of vilja