Viola

See also: viola, vióla, víóla, violá, violà, and Vióla

Translingual

Viola tricolor

Etymology

Latin viola (“violet”)

Proper noun

Viola f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Violaceae – the violets.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Hesperiidae – certain of the butterflies called skippers.

Hypernyms

• (violets): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Malpighiales - order; Violaceae - family
• (butterflies): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Amphiesmenoptera - clade; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Hesperiiformes - series; Hesperiidae - family; Pyrginae - subfamily; Pyrgini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (violets): See List of viola species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• Viola (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Viola (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Viola (Violaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Viola (Hesperiidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Viola (Violaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Viola at USDA Plants database

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English

Etymology

From Latin viola (“violet”)

Proper noun

Viola

1. A female given name
   • 1599 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene 1:

     Were you a woman as the rest goes even, / I should my tears let fall upon your cheek, / And say, 'Thrice welcome, drowned Viola!'

2. A town in Arkansas
3. A town in Delaware
4. A village in Illinois
5. A city in Kansas
6. A hamlet in New York
7. A town in Tennessee
8. A village in Wisconsin

Related terms

• Violet

Translations

female given name

• Czech: Viola (cs) f
• Danish: Viola
• Finnish: Viola (fi)

• Hawaiian: Waiola
• Italian: Viola (it)
• Swedish: Viola (sv)

Anagrams

• Ivalo, oliva, voila, voilà, volia

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Czech

Proper noun

Viola f

1. A female given name, cognate to Viola.

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Danish

Proper noun

Viola

1. A female given name of Latin origin.

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin viola in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviolɑ/
• Hyphenation: Vi‧o‧la

Proper noun

Viola

1. A female given name.
   • 1984 Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, ISBN 951-30-6142-6, pages 45-46:

     Helenalle valkeni että Marjatan äidillä oli sama nimi kaksi kertaa: Viola Orvokki. Kuitenkin nimet olivat kuin toistensa vastakohtia: Viola kellanvaaleana sulatejuustopakkauksessa ja toisaalta Orvokkini tummasilmä.

Declension

Inflection of Viola (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		Viola	Violat
genitive		Violan	Violojen
partitive		Violaa	Violoja
illative		Violaan	Violoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Viola	Violat
accusative	nom.	Viola	Violat
	gen.	Violan
genitive		Violan	Violojen Violainrare
partitive		Violaa	Violoja
inessive		Violassa	Violoissa
elative		Violasta	Violoista
illative		Violaan	Violoihin
adessive		Violalla	Violoilla
ablative		Violalta	Violoilta
allative		Violalle	Violoille
essive		Violana	Violoina
translative		Violaksi	Violoiksi
instructive		—	Violoin
abessive		Violatta	Violoitta
comitative		—	Violoineen

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Italian

Etymology

The given name derived from Latin viola (“a violet”). The surname can be matronymic, but more often occupational, for a dyer of violet cloth, or a player of the viola.

Proper noun

Viola ?

1. A female given name.
2. A surname​.

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviɔɫa/
• Homophone: viola

Proper noun

Viola f (genitive Violy, nominative plural Violy) declension pattern žena

1. A female given name.

Declension

Declension of Viola

	singular	plural
nominative	Viola	Violy
genitive	Violy	Viol
dative	Viole	Violám
accusative	Violu	Violy
locative	Viole	Violách
instrumental	Violou	Violami

Further reading

• Viola in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

Occupational surname for a viola player, from Late Latin vitula, or for a dyer or seller of violet fabric.

Proper noun

Viola ?

1. A surname​.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin viola (“violet”). First recorded in Sweden in 1844.

Proper noun

Viola

1. A female given name.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 57 207 females with the given name Viola living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.