# villa
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪlə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪlə

### Noun

villa (plural villas or villae)
* (plural "villas") A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
** 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.
* (UK, plural "villas") A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
** 1905, E. Nesbit, chapter 1, in The Railway Children, page 1:They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.
* (Ancient Rome, plural "villae") A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
* (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.

#### Derived terms

* Lake Villa
* Villa Grove

#### Translations
### See also

* dacha

### Anagrams

* Viall

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīlla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvi.laː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

villa f (plural villa's, diminutive villaatje n)
* mansion (large, (normally) expensive, sumptuous house)
    Synonym: landhuis

#### Derived terms

* vakantievilla
* villasubsidie
* villawijk
* zomervilla

## Faroese
### Etymology

Related to the adjectives vill (“lost”) and villur (“wild”), from Old Norse villr. See also Swedish villa (“to cause someone to lose one's way”), vill (“lost”).

### Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, plural villur)
* aberration
* mistake, error

#### Synonyms

* (mistake): mistak, feilur, brek, lýti, brongl

### Verb

villa (third person singular past indicative vilti, third person plural past indicative viltu, supine vilt)
* to stray, to get astray
* to err

#### Conjugation

$^1$Only the past participle being declined.

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋilːɑ/, [ˈʋilːɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -ilːɑ
* Hyphenation: vil‧la

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *villa, a loan from Proto-Baltic *wílˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Lithuanian vìlna, Polish wełna, English wool and French laine.

#### Noun

villa
* wool

##### Declension

Possessive forms of villa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villani
villani
accusative
nom.
villani
villani
gen.
villani
genitive
villani
villojeni villaini $^{rare}$
partitive
villaani
villojani
inessive
villassani
villoissani
elative
villastani
villoistani
illative
villaani
villoihini
adessive
villallani
villoillani
ablative
villaltani
villoiltani
allative
villalleni
villoilleni
essive
villanani
villoinani
translative
villakseni
villoikseni
abessive
villattani
villoittani
instructive
comitative
—villoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villasi
villasi
accusative
nom.
villasi
villasi
gen.
villasi
genitive
villasi
villojesi villaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
villaasi
villojasi
inessive
villassasi
villoissasi
elative
villastasi
villoistasi
illative
villaasi
villoihisi
adessive
villallasi
villoillasi
ablative
villaltasi
villoiltasi
allative
villallesi
villoillesi
essive
villanasi
villoinasi
translative
villaksesi
villoiksesi
abessive
villattasi
villoittasi
instructive
comitative
—villoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villamme
villamme
accusative
nom.
villamme
villamme
gen.
villamme
genitive
villamme
villojemme villaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
villaamme
villojamme
inessive
villassamme
villoissamme
elative
villastamme
villoistamme
illative
villaamme
villoihimme
adessive
villallamme
villoillamme
ablative
villaltamme
villoiltamme
allative
villallemme
villoillemme
essive
villanamme
villoinamme
translative
villaksemme
villoiksemme
abessive
villattamme
villoittamme
instructive
comitative
—villoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villanne
villanne
accusative
nom.
villanne
villanne
gen.
villanne
genitive
villanne
villojenne villainne $^{rare}$
partitive
villaanne
villojanne
inessive
villassanne
villoissanne
elative
villastanne
villoistanne
illative
villaanne
villoihinne
adessive
villallanne
villoillanne
ablative
villaltanne
villoiltanne
allative
villallenne
villoillenne
essive
villananne
villoinanne
translative
villaksenne
villoiksenne
abessive
villattanne
villoittanne
instructive
comitative
—villoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villansa
villansa
accusative
nom.
villansa
villansa
gen.
villansa
genitive
villansa
villojensa villainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
villaansa
villojaan villojansa
inessive
villassaan villassansa
villoissaan villoissansa
elative
villastaan villastansa
villoistaan villoistansa
illative
villaansa
villoihinsa
adessive
villallaan villallansa
villoillaan villoillansa
ablative
villaltaan villaltansa
villoiltaan villoiltansa
allative
villalleen villallensa
villoilleen villoillensa
essive
villanaan villanansa
villoinaan villoinansa
translative
villakseen villaksensa
villoikseen villoiksensa
abessive
villattaan villattansa
villoittaan villoittansa
instructive
comitative
—villoineen villoinensa :

##### Derived terms

* villainen
* villakas
* villakko
* villava
* villoittaa
* angoravilla
* kampavilla
* karitsanvilla
* karstavilla
* kašmirvilla
* kaulusvillaopossumi
* kesävilla
* kiharavillainen
* kivivilla
* lampaanvilla
* lasivilla
* lastuvilla
* lettovilla
* lumppuvilla
* merinovilla
* mineraalivilla
* niittyvilla
* niskavillat
* paksuvillainen
* pehmeävillainen
* peltovilla
* philanderinvillapussirotta
* pohjavilla
* puhallusvilla
* puuvilla
* rasvavilla
* sekoitevilla
* selluvilla
* shetlanninvilla
* suovilla
* talvivilla
* teräsvilla
* tupasvilla
* tuuheavillainen
* täysivillainen
* täysvillainen
* valkovillaseitikki
* villa-apina
* villaherkkusieni
* villahiki
* villahousut
* villahuivi
* villahuopa
* villaindri
* villakangas
* villakarvajänis
* villakarvamammutti
* villakarvarousku
* villakaulaliina
* villakehrääjä
* villakoira
* villakuitu
* villakultamyyrä
* villakuore
* villakäsine
* villalanka
* villalapanen
* villalepakko
* villaliito-orava
* villaliituri
* villalumppu
* villamaki
* villamammutti
* villamatto
* villamekko
* villamusliini
* villamyssy
* villaneule
* villanhiki
* villantuotanto
* villantuottaja
* villanuttu
* villaopossumi
* villapaita
* villapipo
* villapusero
* villarasva
* villaryijy
* villaröijy
* villasaksirapu
* villasarvikuono
* villasekoitekangas
* villasukka
* villatakki
* villateollisuus
* villatrikoo
* villavaate
* villavaha
* villavoirousku
* vuohenvilla
* vuorivilla

#### Further reading

* “1. villa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

### Etymology 2

From Italian villa.

#### Noun

villa (rare)
* Synonym of huvila (“villa”)
    Ruoholahden villatRuoholahti Villas

##### Usage notes

Not often used except in the proper names of private houses (e.g. Villa Mairea, Villa Elfvik).

##### Declension

Possessive forms of villa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villani
villani
accusative
nom.
villani
villani
gen.
villani
genitive
villani
villojeni villaini $^{rare}$
partitive
villaani
villojani
inessive
villassani
villoissani
elative
villastani
villoistani
illative
villaani
villoihini
adessive
villallani
villoillani
ablative
villaltani
villoiltani
allative
villalleni
villoilleni
essive
villanani
villoinani
translative
villakseni
villoikseni
abessive
villattani
villoittani
instructive
comitative
—villoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villasi
villasi
accusative
nom.
villasi
villasi
gen.
villasi
genitive
villasi
villojesi villaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
villaasi
villojasi
inessive
villassasi
villoissasi
elative
villastasi
villoistasi
illative
villaasi
villoihisi
adessive
villallasi
villoillasi
ablative
villaltasi
villoiltasi
allative
villallesi
villoillesi
essive
villanasi
villoinasi
translative
villaksesi
villoiksesi
abessive
villattasi
villoittasi
instructive
comitative
—villoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villamme
villamme
accusative
nom.
villamme
villamme
gen.
villamme
genitive
villamme
villojemme villaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
villaamme
villojamme
inessive
villassamme
villoissamme
elative
villastamme
villoistamme
illative
villaamme
villoihimme
adessive
villallamme
villoillamme
ablative
villaltamme
villoiltamme
allative
villallemme
villoillemme
essive
villanamme
villoinamme
translative
villaksemme
villoiksemme
abessive
villattamme
villoittamme
instructive
comitative
—villoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villanne
villanne
accusative
nom.
villanne
villanne
gen.
villanne
genitive
villanne
villojenne villainne $^{rare}$
partitive
villaanne
villojanne
inessive
villassanne
villoissanne
elative
villastanne
villoistanne
illative
villaanne
villoihinne
adessive
villallanne
villoillanne
ablative
villaltanne
villoiltanne
allative
villallenne
villoillenne
essive
villananne
villoinanne
translative
villaksenne
villoiksenne
abessive
villattanne
villoittanne
instructive
comitative
—villoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
villansa
villansa
accusative
nom.
villansa
villansa
gen.
villansa
genitive
villansa
villojensa villainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
villaansa
villojaan villojansa
inessive
villassaan villassansa
villoissaan villoissansa
elative
villastaan villastansa
villoistaan villoistansa
illative
villaansa
villoihinsa
adessive
villallaan villallansa
villoillaan villoillansa
ablative
villaltaan villaltansa
villoiltaan villoiltansa
allative
villalleen villallensa
villoilleen villoillensa
essive
villanaan villanansa
villoinaan villoinansa
translative
villakseen villaksensa
villoikseen villoiksensa
abessive
villattaan villattansa
villoittaan villoittansa
instructive
comitative
—villoineen villoinensa :

#### Further reading

* “2. villa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

### Anagrams

* valli

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian villa. Doublet of ville.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vi.la/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

villa f (plural villas)
* villa
* house in the country

#### Synonyms

* maison de campagne

#### Descendants

* → Persian: ویلا (vilâ)

### Further reading

* “villa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvilːɒ]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vil‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Etymology 1

From a Slavic language. Compare Serbo-Croatian vile.

#### Noun

villa (plural villák)
* fork
    Coordinate term: kés

##### Derived terms

* villányi
* villás
* hangvilla
* húsvilla
* vasvilla
* villacsont

### Etymology 2

From Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”).

#### Noun

villa (plural villák)
* villa (a house, larger and more expensive than average)

##### Declension
### Further reading

* (fork): villa 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
* (villa (large house)): villa 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 1

Related to sense 3 (“to lead astray”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪtla/
    Rhymes: -ɪtla

#### Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)
* a mistake, an error
    Synonym: skekkja (f)
* heresy
    Synonym: villutrú (f)

##### Derived terms

* villugjarn

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin villa (“villa, estate, large country residence”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪlːa/
    Rhymes: -ɪlːa

#### Noun

villa f (genitive singular villu, nominative plural villur)
* villa
    Synonyms: einbýlishús (n), setur (n), sveitasetur (n)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

Related to the adjectives vill (“lost”) and villur (“wild”), from Old Norse villr. See also Swedish villa (“to cause someone to lose one's way”), vill (“lost”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɪtla/
    Rhymes: -ɪtla

#### Verb

villa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative villti, supine villt)
* to misguide, to lead astray, to deceive [with dative]
    Synonym: blekkja

##### Derived terms

* villa á sér heimildir
* villa sýn
* villa um fyrir
* villast (“to lose one's way”)
* villast á
* villandi (“misleading”)

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *villa. Cognates include Finnish villa and Estonian vill.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈʋilːɑ/, [ˈʋiɫː]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈʋilːɑ/, [ˈʋiɫːɑ]
* Rhymes: -ilː, -ilːɑ
* Hyphenation: vil‧la

### Noun

villa
* wool

#### Derived terms

* kesävilla
* puuvilla
* päissärvilla
* rintavilla
* talvivilla
* villakas
* villakukka
* villalammas
* villalanka
* villaleve
* villanahka
* villapaita
* villapää
* villata

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 667

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin vīlla (“country house”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvil.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -illa
* Hyphenation: vìl‧la

### Noun

villa f (plural ville)
* mansion
* detached house, residence
* country house, villa
** 1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, “Seconda giornata - Atto terzo [Second day - Third act]”, in La Fiera, Scena nona; republished in La Fiera, commedia di Michelagnolo Buonarruoti il giovane, e La Tancia, commedia rusticale del medesimo‎, Florence: Stamperia di S. A. R., 1726, page 79:Una villa ha colei quà preſa a fitto, E fa crederſi, intendo, una ’nfelice Donna Romana […][Una villa ha colei qua presa a fitto, e fa credersi, intendo, una 'nfelice donna romana […] ]She has rented a country house here, and I understand she makes believe to be an unhappy woman from Rome
** 1799, Vittorio Alfieri, “Prosa seconda - 24 gennaio 1793”, in Misogallo [The French-hater]‎, London, Avvenimenti, page 27:Codesto Arcivescovo se ne rimaneva dunque avvilito, e privato, in una sua villa situata tra Parigi, e VersagliaThus, said Archbishop was staying, disheartened and in privacy, in a country house of his, located between Paris and Versailles
* (archaic):
** countryside
*** 13th century [4th to 5th century CE], “Onde sia più utile i cavalieri trarre, o della cittade, o della villa [Whence it is more useful to take knights: from the city, or from the countryside]” (chapter 3), Libro primo [First book], in Bono Giamboni, transl., Dell'arte della guerra [On the art of war], translation of Dē rē mīlitārī by Pūblius Flāvius Vegetius Renātus (in Late Latin); republished as Di Vegezio Flavio, Dell’arte della guerra libri IV - volgarizzamento di Bono Giamboni‎, Florence: Giovanni Marenigh, 1815, page 8:Seguitasi che veggiamo onde è più utile il cavaliere trarre, della città o della villa.[original: Sequitur utrum dē agrīs an dē urbibus, ūtilior tīrō sit requīrāmus.]We follow by seeing whence it is best to take a knight: from the city or the countryside.
*** 15th century, Leon Battista Alberti, I libri della famiglia‎; republished in Leon Battista Alberti - Opere volgari‎, Bari: Gius. Laterza & figli, 1960, page 49:Vedilo come sieno e’ fanciulli allevati in villa alla fatica e al sole robusti e fermi più che questi nostri cresciuti nell’ozio e nella ombraYou can see how the youths raised in toils, under the sun in the countryside, are stronger and more vigorous than those of ours, raised in idleness, and in the shadows.
** farm
*** 1537 [2nd century], “Ragionamento primo [First treatise]”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Gli amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe [The bucolic loves of Daphnis and Chloe]‎, translation of Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη [Dáphnis kaì Khlóē, Daphnis and Chloe] by Λόγγος [Lóngos, Longus] (in Ancient Greek); republished in Opere del commendatore Annibal Caro, volume 7, Milan: Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1812, page 6:Fuora di Metellino, poco più di due miglia lontano, era la villa d'un ricchissimo gentiluomo, bellissima e grandissima possessione[original: Ταύτης τῆς πόλεως ὅσον ἀπὸ σταδίων διᾱκοσίων ἀγρὸς ἦν ἀνδρὸς εὐδαίμονος, κτῆμα κάλλιστον]Taútēs tês póleōs hóson apò stadíōn diākosíōn agròs ên andròs eudaímonos, ktêma kállistonOutside of Mytilene—a little over two miles—was the farm of a very wealthy gentleman, a wonderful and vast property
*** 1605 [1304–1309], “De’ luoghi abitevoli da eleggere: delle corti, e case, e di quelle cose, le quali sono necessarie all’abitazion della villa, e prima del conoscimento della bontà del luogo abitevole in comune [Of habitable places to choose; of courtyards, and houses, and the things which are necessary to inhabit the farm; and before [that], of the knowledge of the common habitable area]” (chapter 1), Libro primo [First book], in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell’agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture]‎, Florence: published by Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), page 4:Imperciocchè ’l coltivamento della villa richiede, per li suoi continovi affanni, e fatiche, spezialmente fortezza degli abitanti […][original: Quoniam cultus rūris propter continuōs labōrēs eius praecipuē fortitūdinem habitātōrum quaerit […]]Since the cultivation of the farm highly demands, due to its continuous trials and tribulations, strength of the inhabitants […]
** village, small town
*** late 13th century to 1347 (exact period unknown), “Del naturale inchinamento in quanto è alla patria [On the natural inclination to what concerns the motherland]” (chapter 6), Distinzione seconda [Second distinction], in Bartolomeo da San Concordio, transl., Ammaestramenti degli antichi [Teachings of the ancestors]‎, translation of Dē documentīs antīquōrum by the same author (in Medieval Latin), Seneca ad Elbia de consolatione (section 11); republished, Milan: Società tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1808, page 16:Grandissima parte di questa turba è fuori di sua patria. Venuti sono di cittadi, di castella, di ville, di tutto il mondo.[original: Maxima pars istī̆us turbae patriā caret: ex mūnicipiīs et colōniīs suīs, ex totō dēnique orbe terrārum cōnflūxērunt.]The largest part of this crowd is outside their homeland. They came from cities, from castles, from villages, from all over the world.
*** 1530, Pietro Bembo, chapter XX (chapter 20), Libro secondo [Second book], in Gli Asolani [The Asolani]‎; collected in Carlo Dionisotti, editor, Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime (I classici italiani TEA Tascabili), Milan: Editori Associati, 1989:Allora le ville di nuove case s’empierono, e le città si cinsero di difendevole muroThus the villages were filled with new houses, and the cities were surrounded with defensive walls
** (poetic) city, town
*** 1342–1360, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Come l'autore vede dipinto nella bella sala la gloria del mondo in atto d'una donna [The author sees in the beautiful hall a depiction of the world's glory in the gesture of a woman]” (chapter 6), in Amorosa visione [Love vision]‎; republished, Florence: Ig[nazio] Moutier, 1833, page 27:Nè credo che sia cosa in tutto ’l mondo, Villa, paese dimestico o strano, Che non paresse dentro da quel tondo.[Né credo […] ]Nor I think there were a thing in the whole world, be it a city or a country, familiar or foreign, that didn't seem to be inside that circle.
*** 1493–1527, Ludovico Ariosto, [untitled work], stanza 5; republished as “Frammento I [Fragment I]”, in Giuseppe Fatini, editor, Ludovico Ariosto - Lirica‎, Bari: Gius[eppe] Laterza & figli, 1924:nel tempo ch’a Silvestro dar volea Costantino a guardar quella gran villa; villa dirò, ch’allor villa divenne la cittá che del mondo il scettro tenne.[ […] la città che del mondo il scettro tenne.]in the time when Constantine wanted to give that town to Sylvester to guard. I will say town, because the city that had held the scepter of the world then became a town.

#### Derived terms

* villa comunale

#### Descendants

* → Polish: willa
* → Turkish: villa

### Anagrams

* valli

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* veilla (Republican Latin)
* vēlla (dialectal monophthongisation outcome)

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weikslā, a nominal from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“settlement”) with an instrument/concrete-noun deverbal suffix *-slo- also found in pālus, vēlum. Related to vīcus (“row of houses; village”), vīcīnus (“neighbour”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯iːl.la/, [ˈu̯iːlːʲä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvil.la/, [ˈvilːä]

### Noun

vīlla f (genitive vīllae); first declension
* country house; villa
* estate, farm
* (Medieval Latin) a city
** [1678, du Cange, Glossarium ad Scriptores Mediæ & Infimæ Latinitatis, in quo […] , volume 3, column 1331:VILLA, Civitas, Gallis Ville. Ita usurpasse videtur Rutilius Numatianus in Itiner. dum oppida à civitatibus distinguit, & ortas civitates ex oppidis indicat:(please add an English translation of this quotation)]

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* praepositus vīllae
* vīllānus
* vīllāris
* vīllāticus
* vīllica
* vīllicus
* vīllula

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: ville
* Catalan: vila
* Franco-Provençal: vela
* Italian: villa
** → English: villa
*** → Russian: ви́лла (vílla)
*** → Swedish: villa
** → Finnish: villa
** → French: villa
*** → Catalan: vil·la
*** → Romanian: vilă
** → Hungarian: villa
** → Turkish: villa
* Old French: ville
** Franc-Comtois: vèlle
** Middle French: ville
*** French: ville
** Norman: ville
* Old Galician-Portuguese: vila
** Galician: vila
** Portuguese: vila
* Piedmontese: vila
* Sardinian: bidda
* Sicilian: viḍḍa, villa
* Spanish: villa
* Venetan: vila
* Walloon: veye, viyaedje, Viyé
* → Dutch: villa
* → Old High German: wīla
** Middle High German: wīle
* →⇒ Old High German: wīlari (from late Gallic Latin vīllāre (“hamlet”))
** Middle High German: wīler
*** German: Weiler
* → Icelandic: villa
* → Serbo-Croatian: vila
* → Slovene: vila

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vīcus (> Derivatives > vīlla)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 675

### Further reading

* “villa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* villa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* "villa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam to go to a man's house as his guest: deverti ad aliquem (ad [in] villam)

## Latvian
### Etymology 1

From Italian villa.

#### Noun

villa f (4th declension)
* villa

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

villa f (4th declension)
* (dialectal) wool

##### Declension
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Italian villa and Latin villa.

### Noun

villa m (definite singular villaen, indefinite plural villaer, definite plural villaene)
* a villa, large detached house

### References

* “villa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Italian villa and Latin villa.

### Noun

villa m (definite singular villaen, indefinite plural villaer or villaar, definite plural villaene or villaane)
* a villa, large detached house

### References

* “villa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Noun

villa f (plural villas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of vila.
** 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎, 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∗∗∗ […]

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin villa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbiʝa/ [ˈbi.ʝa]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈbiʝa/ [ˈbi.ʝa]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈbiʎa/ [ˈbi.ʎa]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈbiʃa/ [ˈbi.ʃa]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈbiʒa/ [ˈbi.ʒa]
* Audio (Argentina):(file)
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -iʝa
* Rhymes: -iʝa
* Rhymes: -iʎa
* Rhymes: -iʃa
* Rhymes: -iʒa
* Syllabification: vi‧lla

### Noun

villa f (plural villas)
* small town
* villa
* settlement 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
* (Paraguay, Rioplatense) ellipsis of villa miseria (“slum”).

#### Derived terms

* obrero de villa
* Villa Freud

### Further reading

* “villa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Latin vīlla

#### Noun

villa c
* a villa, a house; a free-standing family house of any size but the very smallest
* (Finland) a summerhome

##### Derived terms

* villaförening (“homeowner association”)
* villaförort (“suburb of stand-alone houses”)
* villaidyll (“idyllic area of stand-alone houses”)
* villakvarter (“city block of stand-alone houses”)
* villastad (“town of stand-alone houses”)
* villaägare (“owner of a stand-alone house”)

### Etymology 2

See vill (“lost”)

#### Verb

villa (present villar, preterite villade, supine villat, imperative villa)
* to confuse (someone); causing a feeling of being lost

##### Conjugation

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

##### Related terms

* förvilla
* villa bort (“to cause someone to lose his/her way; to confuse someone completely”)
* villa bort sig (“to lose track of one's location; to get lost”)

#### Noun

villa c
* (dated) incorrect perception
    Synonyms: förvirring, inbillning, misstag, villfarelse

##### Derived terms

* domvilla
* synvilla
* villospår
* villoväg

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian villa.

### Noun

villa (definite accusative villayı, plural villalar)
* mansion
* house in the country, villa