viol

Borrowed from Middle French viole, Old French viol, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). See viola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ.əl/

viol (plural viols)

1. (music) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.

• viola da gamba
• gamba (informal)

• stringed instrument

• Baryton trios
• chest of viols
• division viol
• lyra viol
• pardessus de viole
• triple contrabass viol
• viola bastarde
• violone

• 2010. Stradivari. Stewart Pollens. Pg. 143.

viol (third-person singular simple present viols, present participle violing, simple past and past participle violed)

1. To play the viol.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.

   • Thomas Hardy

     Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing […]

From Latin violō, violāre (“I treat with violence; I maltreat; I violate, defile, profane”).

• IPA^(key): /vjɔl/

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viol m (plural viols)

1. a rape

• violence
• violer

• “viol” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin violō, violāre (“I treat with violence; I maltreat; I violate, defile, profane”).

viol m (plural viols)

1. (Jersey) rape

Borrowed from French viol.

• IPA^(key): /viˈol/

viol n (plural violuri)

1. rape, violation

• batjocorire
• necinstire
• siluire
• violare

• a viola
• a răpi

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈuːl/

viol c

1. violet (the flower)