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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From French volte.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

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  1. (archaic, equestrianism) A circular movement in which the horse goes round in a small circle.
  2. (archaic, fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust; a parry.

References

Noun

volt (uncountable)

  1. A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
    volt:  

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *volŭtus, from Latin volūtus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. turn, round
    fer un voltto go for a stroll

Etymology 2

Named for Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English volt.

Pronunciation

Noun

volt m inan

  1. volt

Declension

Further reading

  • volt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • volt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English volt.

Pronunciation

Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

  1. volt (unit)

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

  1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Declension of volt
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative volt voltið volt voltini
accusative volt voltið volt voltini
dative volti voltinum voltum voltunum
genitive volts voltsins volta voltanna

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English volt.

Pronunciation

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From English volt.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt
    Synonym: voltio

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola, later vala (same meaning).

Verb

volt

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van
    Milyen volt az előadás?How was the show?

Participle

volt

  1. past participle of van

Adjective

volt (not comparable)

  1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime
    az egyetem volt tanárathe former professor of the university

Particle

volt

  1. (archaic) Used after a past-tense verb form to express past perfect.
    • 1880 (translation), 411 BC (original), János Arany (translator), Aristophanes (original), A nők ünnepe (Thesmophoriazusae). English translation: 2007, George Theodoridis.
      A vén gaz asszony meg, ki hozta volt, ¶ Fut vigyorogva a férjhez s kiáltja:
      Then the old woman picks it up and rushes out to the husband! She puts on a big grin on her face and tells him straight out,

Etymology 2

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.[1]

Noun

volt (plural voltok)

  1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative volt voltok
accusative voltot voltokat
dative voltnak voltoknak
instrumental volttal voltokkal
causal-final voltért voltokért
translative volttá voltokká
terminative voltig voltokig
essive-formal voltként voltokként
essive-modal
inessive voltban voltokban
superessive volton voltokon
adessive voltnál voltoknál
illative voltba voltokba
sublative voltra voltokra
allative volthoz voltokhoz
elative voltból voltokból
delative voltról voltokról
ablative volttól voltoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
volté voltoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
voltéi voltokéi
Possessive forms of volt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. voltom voltjaim
2nd person sing. voltod voltjaid
3rd person sing. voltja voltjai
1st person plural voltunk voltjaink
2nd person plural voltotok voltjaitok
3rd person plural voltjuk voltjaik
Derived terms
Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • (the past form of van or an auxiliary particle expressing past perfect): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (former, previous, bygone): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (unit): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, nominative plural volt)

  1. volt

Declension

    Declension of volt
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative volt voltið volt voltin
accusative volt voltið volt voltin
dative volti voltinu voltum voltunum
genitive volts voltsins volta voltanna

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English volt, itself named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, from Volta.

Noun

volt m (invariable)

  1. volt

Latin

Verb

volt

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of volō

References

  • volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt oblique singularm (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

  1. face

Synonyms

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (volt)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m

  1. figure
  2. face
  3. holy image

References

  • Levy, Emil. 1923. Petit dictionnaire provençal-français. Heidelberg: Winter. Page 386.

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m inan (abbreviation V)

  1. Alternative spelling of wolt
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

volt f

  1. genitive plural of volta

Further reading

  • volt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English volt.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvow.t͡ʃi/ , /ˈvowt͡ʃ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvowt͡ʃ/ , /ˈvow.t͡ʃi/
 

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt (unit of measure)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French volt.

Noun

volt m (plural volți)

  1. volt

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English volt.

Noun

volt m (Cyrillic spelling волт)

  1. volt

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

Noun

volt m inan (related adjective voltový)

  1. (physics) volt

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • volt”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Swedish

Etymology

From French volte, from Italian volta (a turn, rotation).

Noun

volt c

  1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
    att göra/slå en volt
    to do a somersault
  2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.
    Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.
    The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

Declension

See also

Noun

volt c

  1. volt (unit)

Declension

References

Anagrams

Tatar

Etymology

From English volt.

Noun

volt

  1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.
    80 meñ volt80 thousand volts

Declension