viol
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French viole, from Old French viol, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). Doublet of viola.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaɪ.əl/
- Homophones: vial, vile
Noun
viol (plural viols)
- (music) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold
- Synonyms: viola d'amore, viola da gamba, (informal) gamba
- Hypernym: stringed instrument
- Hyponyms: Baryton trios, chest of viols, division viol, lyra viol, pardessus de viole, triple contrabass viol, viola bastarde, violone
- (nautical) A large rope used to manipulate the anchor
Translations
stringed instrument
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References
- 2010. Stradivari. Stewart Pollens. Pg. 143.
Verb
viol (third-person singular simple present viols, present participle violing, simple past and past participle violed)
- To play the viol.
- 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:
- “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
- 1914, Thomas Hardy, Seen by the Waits
- Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing […]
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French
Etymology
From Latin violō (“to violate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
viol m (plural viols)
- a rape
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Further reading
- “viol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Latin violō (“to violate”).
Noun
viol m (plural viols)
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
viol n (plural violuri)
Declension
Declension of viol
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) viol | violul | (niște) violuri | violurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) viol | violului | (unor) violuri | violurilor |
vocative | violule | violurilor |
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Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
viol c
- violet (the flower)
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