vole

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norn vollj, from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”). The Orkney dialectal term vole mouse, lit. “field mouse”, was introduced to general English by George Barry in 1805; John Fleming in 1828 was first to refer to the creature by the epithet vole alone. Displaced earlier names for these species which also classified them as mice, e.g. short-tailed field mouse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -əʊl

Noun

vole (plural voles)

1. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the subfamily Arvicolinae of the family Cricetidae which are not lemmings or muskrats.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French vole.

Noun

vole (plural voles)

1. A deal in a card game, écarté, that draws all the tricks.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift:

     Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Epilogue:

     With humble curate can I now retire,
     (While good Sir Peter boozes with the squire,)
     And at backgammon mortify my soul,
     That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole?

Verb

vole (third-person singular simple present voles, present participle voling, simple past and past participle voled)

1. (card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, , →OCLC:

     no lad shall chuck, or lady vole, But some excising Courtier will have toll.

Further reading

• vole on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “vole”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Love, levo, levo-, love, velo-, voël

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• voll

Etymology

From Middle High German vol, voll, from Old High German foll, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz. Cognate with German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Icelandic fullur.

Adjective

vole (comparative völler, superlative völlscht)

1. full

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

vole m

1. vocative singular of vůl

Interjection

vole

1. (informal) man, dude
2. Ellipsis of ty vole.

Usage notes

This interjection is considered vulgar by some people, its primary meaning being "you ass"; however, it is today quite frequently used in very informal speech without any vulgar overtones, either as a friendly address or as an emphasizer; some people lard their talk with it without its having any meaning (similarly to the way some people use "fuck" in English, but "vole" is not so strong). It is often used in the form "ty vole".

Etymology 2

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

vole

Wikipedia ^cs

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *voľe with unclear origin; possibly related to German schwellen, Wulst.

Noun

vole n

1. crop, craw (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
2. (obsolete) goitre

   Synonym: struma

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of volit

References

Further reading

• vole in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• vole in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• vole in Internetová jazyková příručka

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Adverb

vole

1. voluntarily

Derived terms

• vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)

Related terms

• vola (“voluntary”)
• voli (“to want, wish”)
• volo (“volition; one's wish”)

French

Verb

vole

1. inflection of voler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• love, lové
• vélo

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French voler (“fly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vole/

Verb

vole

1. to fly

Interlingua

Verb

vole

1. present of voler
2. imperative of voler

Italian

Verb

vole

1. (archaic) third-person singular present indicative of volere

Synonyms

• vuole

Anagrams

• Elvo, levo, levò, velo, velò

Romanian

Noun

vole n (plural voleuri)

1. Obsolete form of voleu.

Declension

References

• vole in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vole

1. vocative singular of vol

Verb

vole (Cyrillic spelling воле)

1. third-person plural present indicative of voljeti

Turkish

Etymology

From French volée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.le/
• Hyphenation: vo‧le

Noun

vole (definite accusative voleyi, plural voleler)

1. (sports) A volley kick in association football.
2. (sports) A shot in tennis before the ball hits the ground.

Declension

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “vole”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vole”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5130

Volapük

Noun

vole

1. dative singular of vol

Yola

Verb

vole

1. Alternative form of vall

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 76