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vila

See also: Vila, vilã, víla, vilà, viľă, and vilă

English

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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian víla and Slovene vila.

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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.

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Etymology

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From Latin vīlla.

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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

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Czech

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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vila f (relational adjective vilový, diminutive vilka)

  1. villa
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Declension of vila (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative vila vily
genitive vily vil
dative vile vilám
accusative vilu vily
vocative vilo vily
locative vile vilách
instrumental vilou vilami

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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vila

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

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Galician

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A vila de Baiona ("the town of Baiona")
 
Baralla, Lugo, a vila or little town

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

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

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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

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin vīlla (“country house”).

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vila f (plural vilas)

  1. village; a small town
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Descendants

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  • Galician: vila
  • Portuguese: vila

Old Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin villānus.

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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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Portuguese

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  • villa (pre-standardization spelling)

Etymology

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

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  • Rhymes: -ilɐ
  • Hyphenation: vi‧la

Noun

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vila f (plural vilas)

  1. town
    Coordinate terms: aldeia, cidade
    • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎[1], 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∗∗∗ […]
  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

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  1. ^ “vila”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  2. ^ “vila”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romansch

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Etymology

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

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vila f (plural vilas)

  1. (Sutsilvan) needle

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology 1

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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”).

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

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víla f (Cyrillic spelling ви́ла)

  1. vila (a type of female nature spirit in Slavic mythology)
  2. fairy
Declension
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Declension of vila
singular plural
nominative vila vile
genitive vile vila
dative vili vilama
accusative vilu vile
vocative vilo vile
locative vili vilama
instrumental vilom vilama
Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of “good fairy”): zla vještica

Further reading

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  • “vila”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin villa.

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

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vȉla f (Cyrillic spelling ви̏ла)

  1. villa
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Declension of vila
singular plural
nominative vȉla vile
genitive vile vȋlā
dative vili vilama
accusative vilu vile
vocative vilo vile
locative vili vilama
instrumental vilom vilama

Further reading

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  • “vila”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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vila (Cyrillic spelling вила)

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

References

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

Slovene

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Slavic *vila.

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vȋla f

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

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin villa.

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vȋla f

  1. villa

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  • “vila”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “vila”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Swedish

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  • hvila (obsolete since 1906)

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Etymology 1

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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.

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vila c

  1. rest; relief from work, activity or exertion
    koppla av och få lite vila
    relax and get some rest
  2. a rest; the repose afforded by death
  3. (physics) rest; absence of motion
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Declension of vila
nominative genitive
singular indefinite vila vilas
definite vilan vilans
plural indefinite vilor vilors
definite vilorna vilornas
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Etymology 2

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

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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
    lägga sig ner och vila
    lie down and rest
    vila upp sig
    get rested up
    (literally, “rest oneself up [idiomatic]”)
  3. to rest; to lean or lay
  4. to rest; to lie or lean or be supported
    Huset vilar på grunden
    The house rests on the foundation
  5. (figuratively) to rest (be supported, etc., abstractly)
    vila på ett antagande
    rest on an assumption
    vila på skakig grund
    rest on a shaky foundation
    vila på vetenskaplig grund
    rest on a scientific foundation
    Det tycks vila en förbannelse över laget
    The team seems to be cursed / There seems to be a curse hanging over the team [figuratively, but could also mean literally]
    (literally, “There seems to rest a curse over the team [idiomatic]”)
    • 1932, Evert Taube, “Calle Schewens vals [Calle Schewen's Waltz]”‎[2]:
      Då vilar min blommande ö vid din barm, du dunkelblå, vindstilla fjärd. Och julinattsskymningen smyger sig varm till sovande buskar och träd. Min älva, du dansar så lyssnande tyst och tänker att karlar är troll. Den skälver, din barnsliga hand som jag kysst, och valsen förklingar i moll.
      Then my blossoming island rests [then rests my blossoming island] on your bosom, you dark blue, still ["windstill," currently windless] archipelago / bay. And the dusk of the July night sneaks, warm, to sleeping bushes and trees. My fairy [or "elf," but with different connotations], you dance so quietly, listening ["listeningly quiet"], and think to yourself [to avoid the ambiguity of just "think" here in English] that men are trolls. It trembles, your childish hand that I have kissed, and the waltz fades away in minor [key].
    • 1991, Eva Dahlgren, “Vem tänder stjärnorna? [Who lights the stars?]”, in En blekt blondins hjärta [The Heart of a Bleached Blonde]‎[3]:
      Det var evighetssekunder. Tre korta andetag. Hela livet vände. Vem valde? Inte jag. Jag hörde ord från mina läppar som aldrig vilat i min mun. Tankar aldrig tänkta, som nya väggar i ett rum.
      It was seconds of eternity. Three short breaths. My whole life ["the whole life" – Swedish often prefers to express possession by putting a noun in the definite instead of with a separate possessive pronoun] turned around. Who chose? Not me. I heard words from my lips that had [implied from supine] never rested in my mouth. Thoughts never thought, like new walls in a room.
  6. (cooking) to rest; to allow (food, typically meat or dough) to sit (often at room temperature) without further handling or application of heat
    Efter du tagit det färdiga köttet ur ugnen, låt det vila i 10 minuter innan du skär upp det.
    After you've taken the cooked meat out of the oven, let it rest for 10 minutes before slicing it.
Conjugation
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Conjugation of vila (weak)
active passive
infinitive vila vilas
supine vilat vilats
imperative vila —
imper. plural1 vilen —
present past present past
indicative vilar vilade vilas vilades
ind. plural1 vila vilade vilas vilades
subjunctive2 vile vilade viles vilades
present participle vilande
past participle vilad

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

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vila

  1. to boil

Venetan

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From Latin villa; compare Italian villa.

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vila f (plural vile)

  1. house (large), mansion
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