vole
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Norn [Term?], from Old Norse vǫllr (“field”), q.v. The Orkney dialectal name 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
Noun
vole (plural voles)
- 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
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Note: There is a systematic error in the entries below. "Vole" refers to hundreds of small rodent species living in all kinds of habitats. Many, but probably not all, of the translations refer to the "water vole", which is just one of the many species. When translating "vole" into other languages, one should look for words that refer to the voles as a group. Further details can be found on the Wikipedia articles on vole and on many of the species.
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Etymology 2
French [Term?]
Noun
vole (plural voles)
- 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.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, Verses on the Death of Dr Swift
Verb
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- (card games, intransitive) To win all the tricks by a vole.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Further reading
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
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)
Czech
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Declension of vůl.
Noun
Interjection
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
From Proto-Slavic with unclear origin; possibly related with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German schwellen, Wulst.[1][2]
Noun
vole n
Declension
Synonyms
- (goitre): struma
Etymology 3
Conjugation of volit.
Verb
References
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adverb
vole
Derived terms
- vole nevole (“voluntarily or involuntarily, like it or lump it”)
Related terms
French
Verb
vole
- inflection of voler:
Anagrams
Interlingua
Verb
vole
- present of voler
- imperative of voler
Italian
Verb
vole
Synonyms
Anagrams
Volapük
Noun
vole
- English terms borrowed from Norn
- English terms derived from Norn
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/əʊl
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms borrowed from French
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- en:Card games
- English intransitive verbs
- Requests for quotations/Alexander Pope
- en:Cricetids
- Alemannic German terms inherited from Middle High German
- Alemannic German terms derived from Middle High German
- Alemannic German terms inherited from Old High German
- Alemannic German terms derived from Old High German
- Alemannic German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Alemannic German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Alemannic German lemmas
- Alemannic German adjectives
- Czech 2-syllable words
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech interjections
- Czech informal terms
- Czech terms derived from German
- Czech nouns
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- Czech terms with obsolete senses
- Czech present transgressives
- Czech terms with multiple etymologies
- Esperanto terms with audio links
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto adverbs
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- Interlingua non-lemma forms
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- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Italian terms with archaic senses
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