vila

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian víla and Slovene vila.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈviːlə/

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vila (plural vilas or vile)

1. (mythology) A type of fairy or nymph in Slavic mythology.
   • 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."

   • 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.

   • 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.

• LAIV, Vail, Vali, Vial, vail, vali, vial

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.lə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.la/

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.

• “vila” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪla]
• Rhymes: -ɪla

vila f

1. villa

• vilka
• vilový

• vila in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• vila in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbila̝/

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

• vilar

• “vila” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vila” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vila” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vila” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vila” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• vilan

From Latin villānus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvila/

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.

From Latin vīlla (“country house”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈβi.l̪a/

vila f (plural vilas)

1. village; a small town
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 159 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria fez deſcobrir hũa poſta de carne que furtaran a uũs romeus na uila de Rocamador.

     How Holy Mary caused to be found a piece of meat which was stolen from some pilgrims in the village of Rocamadour.

• vilão

• Galician: vila
• Portuguese: vila

• villa (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.la/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.lɐ/

vila f (plural vilas)

1. small town, village
2. country house
3. (Brazil, slang) a low-class residential area

• (country house): casa de campo

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) guglia
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) guila
• (Puter, Vallader) aguoglia
• (Vallader) guoglia

From Vulgar Latin *acūcla < *acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”).

vila f (plural vilas)

1. (Sutsilvan) needle

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”)>.

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

víla f (Cyrillic spelling ви́ла)

1. fairy

• (good fairy): zla vještica

Borrowed from Latin villa.

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

vȉla f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ла)

1. villa

• Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “вила”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

From Proto-Slavic *vila.

• IPA^(key): /ʋíːla/

vȋla f

1. fairy
2. villa

• 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.

vila c

1. a rest; relief from work, activity or exertion
2. a rest; the repose afforded by death
3. (physics) a rest; absence of motion

• pausvila
• sista vilan
• vilorum

From Old Swedish hvīla, from Old Norse hvíla, from Proto-Germanic *hwīlaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁-.

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
3. to rest; to lean or lay
4. to rest; to lie or lean or be supported

• utvilad
• vila sina ögon på
• vila ut
• vilsam

From Latin villa; compare Italian villa

vila f (plural vile)

1. house (large), mansion