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vila

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See also: Vila, vilã, víla, vilà, viľă, vilă, and vīla

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian víla and Slovene vila.

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Noun

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vila (plural vilas or vile)

  1. (Slavic mythology) A type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology, similar in some ways to a fairy or nymph.
    • 1874, Elodie Lawton Mijatovic, Serbian Folklore:
      "The Vilas (fairies) live there, and they will certainly put out your eyes as they have put out mine, if you venture on their mountain."
    • 1995, Albert Bates Lord, The Singer Resumes the Tale, page 52:
      She is answered, fittingly enough, by a vila, who declares that she is more beautiful than the girl.
    • 1998, Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend, page 302:
      Duly married, the couple lived for some time in peace and contentment, until one day Marko boasted that his wife was a vila, whereupon she put on her wings and flew away.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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    From Latin vīlla.

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    vila f (plural viles)

    1. settlement, usually with a minimum of five thousand inhabitants (bigger than a town but smaller than a city), that has asked for the title officially. Previously, this title was granted by the king

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    Czech

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    Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Noun

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    vila f (relational adjective vilový, diminutive vilka)

    1. villa
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    Declension of vila (hard feminine)
    singular plural
    nominative vila vily
    genitive vily vil
    dative vile vilám
    accusative vilu vily
    vocative vilo vily
    locative vile vilách
    instrumental vilou vilami

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Participle

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    vila

    1. inflection of vít:
      1. feminine singular past active participle
      2. neuter plural past active participle

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    Galician

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    A vila de Baiona ("the town of Baiona")
    Baralla, Lugo, a vila or little town

    Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-der.
    Proto-Italic *weikslā
    Latin vīlla
    Old Galician-Portuguese vila
    Galician vila

      Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin vīlla (“country house”).

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      • IPA(key): /ˈbila/ [ˈbi.lɐ]
      • Rhymes: -ila
      • Hyphenation: vi‧la

      Noun

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      vila f (plural vilas)

      1. town; urban settlement smaller than a cidade (“city”) and larger than a aldea (“village”), which usually acts as the economic and administrative capital of a comarca
      2. (archaic) village
        Synonym: aldea
      3. country house
        Synonym: casa de campo

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      Old Galician-Portuguese

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-der.
      Proto-Italic *weikslā
      Latin vīlla
      Old Galician-Portuguese vila

        Inherited from Latin vīlla (“country house”).

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        vila f (plural vilas)

        1. village; a small town
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        Descendants

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        • Galician: vila
        • Portuguese: vila

        Old Occitan

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        Etymology

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        From Latin villānus.

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        vila m (oblique plural vilas, nominative singular vilas, nominative plural vila)

        1. serf, countryman, peasant
          • c. 1130, Marcabru, pastorela:
            Cerca fols la folatura, / Cortes cortez’ aventura, / E·l vilas ab la vilana [...].
            The fool searches for folly, the gentleman for gentle adventure, and the peasant for his peasant-girl.
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)

        Portuguese

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        Alternative forms

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        • villa (pre-standardization spelling)

        Etymology

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        From Old Galician-Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”).[1][2] Cognate with Galician vila, Spanish and Italian villa, and French ville. The sense of a slum is a semantic loan from Spanish villa.

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        • Rhymes: -ilɐ
        • Hyphenation: vi‧la

        Noun

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        vila f (plural vilas)

        1. town
          Coordinate terms: aldeia, cidade
          • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 80:
            Assim fallavam alguns indivíduos pertencentes a diversas cathegorias da pequena sociedade da villa de X*** […]
            Thus spoke some individuals belonging to various classes of the small society of the town of X*** […]
        2. country house
          Synonym: casa de campo
        3. (Brazil, colloquial) a low-class residential area, like row houses, but in a self-managed community around a cul-de-sac
        4. (Rio Grande do Sul, colloquial) slum
          Synonym: favela

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        References

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        1. ^ “vila”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
        2. ^ “vila”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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        Romansh

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        From Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”).

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        vila f (plural vilas)

        1. (Sutsilvan) needle

        Serbo-Croatian

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        Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
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        Etymology 1

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        Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vila. Cognate with Bulgarian самовила (samovila) and вила (vila, “fairy”), Slovene vila (“fairy living in the forest or in the water”), Old Russian вила (vila) and Slovak víla (“fairy”). According to Vasmer, non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse veiðr (“hunt”) and Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vaiieiti, “he pursuits, frightens”).

        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ʋǐːla/
        • Hyphenation: vi‧la

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        víla f (Cyrillic spelling ви́ла)

        1. vila (a type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology)
        2. fairy
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        Declension of vila
        singular plural
        nominative vila vile
        genitive vile vila
        dative vili vilama
        accusative vilu vile
        vocative vilo vile
        locative vili vilama
        instrumental vilom vilama
        Antonyms
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        • (antonym(s) of “good fairy”): zla vještica

        Further reading

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        • “vila”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

        Etymology 2

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        Borrowed from Latin villa.

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        • IPA(key): /ʋîla/
        • Hyphenation: vi‧la

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        vȉla f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ла)

        1. villa
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        Declension of vila
        singular plural
        nominative vȉla vile
        genitive vile vȋlā
        dative vili vilama
        accusative vilu vile
        vocative vilo vile
        locative vili vilama
        instrumental vilom vilama

        Further reading

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        • “vila”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

        Etymology 3

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        See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

        Participle

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        vila (Cyrillic spelling вила)

        1. inflection of viti:
          1. feminine singular active past participle
          2. neuter plural active past participle

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        • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “вила”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

        Slovene

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        Etymology 1

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        From Proto-Slavic *vila. First attested in the 18th century.

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        vȋla f

        1. vila (a type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology)
        2. fairy

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        Borrowed from Latin villa.

        Noun

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        vȋla f

        1. villa

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        • “vila”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
        • “vila”, in Termania, Amebis
        • See also the general references

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        • hvila (obsolete since 1906)

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        From Old Norse hvíld (“rest, pause”), compare Danish hvile (“rest”), Old High German wīla (German Weile), Gothic 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰 (ƕeila, “interval, time period”), English while.

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        vila c

        1. rest; relief from work, activity or exertion
          koppla av och få lite vila
          relax and get some rest
        2. a rest; the repose afforded by death
        3. (physics) rest; absence of motion
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        Declension of vila
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite vila vilas
        definite vilan vilans
        plural indefinite vilor vilors
        definite vilorna vilornas
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        From Old Swedish hvīla, from Old Norse hvíla, from Proto-Germanic *hwīlaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁-.

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        vila (present vilar, preterite vilade, supine vilat, imperative vila)

        1. to rest; to relieve, to give rest to
        2. to rest; to take a break; to cease working for a little while, to become inactive
          lägga sig ner och vila
          lie down and rest
          vila upp sig
          get rested up
          (literally, “rest oneself up [idiomatic]”)
        3. to rest; to lean or lay
        4. to rest; to lie or lean or be supported
          Huset vilar på grunden
          The house rests on the foundation
        5. (figuratively) to rest (be supported, etc., abstractly)
          vila på ett antagande
          rest on an assumption
          vila på skakig grund
          rest on a shaky foundation
          vila på vetenskaplig grund
          rest on a scientific foundation
          Det tycks vila en förbannelse över laget
          The team seems to be cursed / There seems to be a curse hanging over the team [figuratively, but could also mean literally]
          (literally, “There seems to rest a curse over the team [idiomatic]”)
          • 1932, Evert Taube, “Calle Schewens vals [Calle Schewen's Waltz]”‎[2]:
            Då vilar min blommande ö vid din barm, du dunkelblå, vindstilla fjärd. Och julinattsskymningen smyger sig varm till sovande buskar och träd. Min älva, du dansar så lyssnande tyst och tänker att karlar är troll. Den skälver, din barnsliga hand som jag kysst, och valsen förklingar i moll.
            Then my blossoming island rests [then rests my blossoming island] on your bosom, you dark blue, still ["windstill," currently windless] archipelago / bay. And the dusk of the July night sneaks, warm, to sleeping bushes and trees. My fairy [or "elf," but with different connotations], you dance so quietly, listening ["listeningly quiet"], and think to yourself [to avoid the ambiguity of just "think" here in English] that men are trolls. It trembles, your childish hand that I have kissed, and the waltz fades away in minor [key].
          • 1991, Eva Dahlgren, “Vem tänder stjärnorna? [Who lights the stars?]”, in En blekt blondins hjärta [The Heart of a Bleached Blonde]‎[3]:
            Det var evighetssekunder. Tre korta andetag. Hela livet vände. Vem valde? Inte jag. Jag hörde ord från mina läppar som aldrig vilat i min mun. Tankar aldrig tänkta, som nya väggar i ett rum.
            It was seconds of eternity. Three short breaths. My whole life ["the whole life" – Swedish often prefers to express possession by putting a noun in the definite instead of with a separate possessive pronoun] turned around. Who chose? Not me. I heard words from my lips that had [implied from supine] never rested in my mouth. Thoughts never thought, like new walls in a room.
        6. (cooking) to rest; to allow (food, typically meat or dough) to sit (often at room temperature) without further handling or application of heat
          Efter du tagit det färdiga köttet ur ugnen, låt det vila i 10 minuter innan du skär upp det.
          After you've taken the cooked meat out of the oven, let it rest for 10 minutes before slicing it.
        Conjugation
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        Conjugation of vila (weak)
        active passive
        infinitive vila vilas
        supine vilat vilats
        imperative vila —
        imper. plural1 vilen —
        present past present past
        indicative vilar vilade vilas vilades
        ind. plural1 vila vilade vilas vilades
        subjunctive2 vile vilade viles vilades
        present participle vilande
        past participle vilad

        1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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        Taulil

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        Noun

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        vila

        1. son

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        • Meng, Chenxi (2018), A Grammar of Tulil (PhD thesis)‎[4], page 8

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        Verb

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        vila

        1. to boil

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        From Latin villa; compare Italian villa.

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        vila f (plural vile)

        1. house (large), mansion
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