different between city vs volo

English

Alternative forms

• cyte (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English city, citie, citee, cite, from Old French cité, from Latin c?vit?s (“citizenry; community; a city with its hinterland”), from c?vis (“native; townsman; citizen”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie down, settle; home, family; love; beloved”).

Cognate with Old English h?wan pl (“members of one's household, servants”). See hewe. Doublet of civitas.

Displaced native Middle English burgh, borough (“fortified town; incorporated city”) and sted, stede (“place, stead; city”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ti/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /s?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??i/
• Rhymes: -?ti
• Hyphenation: ci?ty

Noun

city (plural cities)

1. A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
2. (Britain) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
   • 1976, Cornelius P. Darcy, The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860, Manchester University Press (?ISBN), page 20

     Manchester, incorporated in 1838, was made the centre of a bishopric in 1847 and became a city in 1853. Liverpool was transformed into a city by Royal Charter when the new diocese of Liverpool was created in 1880.

   • 2014, Graham Rutt, Cycling Britain's Cathedrals Volume 1, Lulu.com (?ISBN), page 307

     St Davids itself is the smallest city in Great Britain, with a population of less than 2,000.

3. (Australia) The central business district; downtown.

4. (slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).

   It's video game city in here!

Hypernyms

• settlement

Derived terms

Pages starting with “city”.

Related terms

• civic
• civil

Descendants

• ? French: City
• ? German: City
• ? Italian: city
• ? Swedish: city

Translations

See also

• metropolis
• megalopolis
• megacity
• multicity

Further reading

• "city" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 55.

Anagrams

• ICTY

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?t?]

Noun

city

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of cit

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English city. Doublet of città.

Noun

city f (invariable)

1. city (financial district of a city)

Derived terms

• city bike
• city car
• city manager

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English city.

Pronunciation

Noun

city n

1. inner city, the commercial centre of a medium-sized or larger city

   Lite närmare city, i närheten av konstmuseet, ligger Norrköpings mest attraktiva lägenheter.

   A little closer to the town centre, next to the art museum, you'll find Norrköping's most attractive apartments.

   Det finns mycket att förbättra i vårt city.

   There are many things that need improvement in our inner city.

Usage notes

• centrum is used for the commercial centre of suburbs and small or medium-sized towns.

Synonyms

• centrum
• innerstad

Catalan

Verb

volo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of volar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?volo/
• Hyphenation: vol?o
• Rhymes: -olo
• Audio:

Noun

volo (accusative singular volon, plural voloj, accusative plural volojn)

1. volition
2. what one desires or wishes, a gift of peace, one's wish
3. a Latin shortcut for the word Volabesta

Related terms

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vo.lo/
• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: vó?lo

Noun

volo m (plural voli)

1. flight (of a bird; trip in a plane)

Verb

volo

1. first-person singular present of volare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?o.lo?/, [?u????o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vo.lo/, [?v??l?]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *wel?, from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose, to want”). Cognate with Sanskrit ?????? (v???te, “to choose, prefer”), Old English willan (“to will, wish, desire”). More at will.

Verb

vol? (present infinitive velle, perfect active volu?); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no imperative

2. I wish, I please

4. I want
5. I mean, I intend

   Et dixit ad socerum, "Quid est quod facere voluisti?

   And he said to his father-in-law: "What is it that thou didst mean to do?" (KJV Bible, Genesis 29:25)

   Quibus ad se accersitis rex ait: "Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis ut pueros servaretis?"

   And the king called for them, and said: "What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?" (KJV Bible, Exodus 1:18)

6. I am willing, I consent
7. I am going to, I intend, I am about to, I am on the point of

Conjugation

While it does have third conjugation forms, this verb is irregular. In Romance, it was regularized into a second conjugation verb vole? (present infinitive vol?re). Its present infinitive, velle, descends from the athematic infinitive form Proto-Italic *wel-zi (*-zi being the source of the usual infinitive ending -re as well). The second person singular present form v?s is suppletive and belongs to the root Proto-Indo-European *weyh?- (“to strive after, pursue”).

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *g?el??, from Proto-Indo-European *g?elh?-éh?-ye-ti (“to throw, raise the arm”), from *g?elH- (“to throw”).

Verb

vol? (present infinitive vol?re, perfect active vol?v?, supine vol?tum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive

2. to fly

   Verba volant, scr?pta manent.

   Words fly, writings remain.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• volo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• volo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• volo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 687

Malagasy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vul?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (compare Malay bulu), from Proto-Austronesian *bulu.

Noun

volo

1. (anatomy) hair (the collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq (compare Malay buluh), from Proto-Austronesian *buluq.

Noun

volo

1. bamboo (wood)