vila

• (dated) veela

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian víla and Slovene vila.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈviːlə/

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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.

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

From Latin vīlla.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbi.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvi.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [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

• vilatà

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪla]
• Rhymes: -ɪla

vila f (related adjective vilový, diminutive vilka)

1. villa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vila

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

• “vila”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vila”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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

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

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vila”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vila”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vila”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vila”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vila”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin vīlla (“country house”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈβi.l̪a/

vila f (plural vilas)

1. village; a small town
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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

• 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.

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• villa (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”).^[1][2] Cognate with Galician vila, Spanish and Italian villa, and French ville.

• Rhymes: -ilɐ
• Hyphenation: vi‧la

vila f (plural vilas)

1. town

   Coordinate terms: aldeia, cidade

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

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

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

vila f (plural vilas)

1. (Sutsilvan) needle

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”).

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

víla f (Cyrillic spelling ви́ла)

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

• (antonym(s) of “good fairy”): zla vještica

Borrowed from Latin villa.

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

vȉla f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ла)

1. villa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vila (Cyrillic spelling вила)

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

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

From Proto-Slavic *vila.

• IPA^(key): /ʋíːla/

vȋla f

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

Borrowed from Latin villa.

vȋla f

1. villa

• “vila”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

• 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

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

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

• vila in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vila in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vila in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

vila

1. to boil

From Latin villa; compare Italian villa.

vila f (plural vile)

1. house (large), mansion