different between horrible vs ville

English

Etymology

First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(?re) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h???b?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h???b?l/, /?h???b?l/, [-b??]
• (NYC, Philadelphia, Ireland) IPA^(key): /?h???b?l/

Noun

horrible (plural horribles)

1. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

     Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!

   • 1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate

     A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.

   • 1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey

     The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.

   • 2000, John Dean, CNN interview, January 21, 2000:

     I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.

   • 2001, Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights

     Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.

2. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.

Translations

Adjective

horrible (comparative horribler or more horrible, superlative horriblest or most horrible)

1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
2. Tremendously bad.
   • 2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, page 599:

     Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:frightening
• See Thesaurus:bad

Related terms

• horrific
• horrify
• horror
• horrendous

Translations

References

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible (epicene, plural horribles)

1. horrible

Related terms

• horror

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /u?ri.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?ri.ble/

Adjective

horrible (masculine and feminine plural horribles)

1. horrible

Derived terms

• horriblement

Related terms

• horror

French

Etymology

From Old French horrible, orrible, orible, borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.?ibl/

Adjective

horrible (plural horribles)

1. horrible; causing horror.

Related terms

• horreur

Further reading

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• horríbel

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible m or f (plural horribles)

1. horrible

Derived terms

• horriblemente

Related terms

• horror

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible

1. horrible

Descendants

• English: horrible

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribilis.

Adjective

horrible (plural horribles)

1. horrible

Derived terms

• horriblemente

Related terms

• horror

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin villa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vij/

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

1. city
2. town

Synonyms

• citai

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljan?, cognate with English will, German wollen. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *welh?-, which is also the source of Latin vol?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vil?/, [??il?], [??el?]

Verb

ville (present tense vil, past tense ville, past participle villet)

1. (transitive) to want to, be willing to
2. (auxiliary, in the present tense) shall, will (with the infinitive, expresses future tense)
3. (auxiliary, in the past tense) should, would (with the infinitive, expresses conditional mood)

Inflection

Derived terms

• ville vide at
• ville vide af
• ville til at
• vil du tænke dig
• verden vil bedrages
• om du vil
• ikke ville høre tale om
• hvis du endelig vil vide det
• hverken ville eje eller have
• det vil sige

References

• “ville” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ville,4” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Estonian

Noun

ville

1. illative singular of vile

French

Etymology

From Middle French ville, from Old French ville, vile, inherited from Latin v?lla (“country house”). Doublet of villa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vil/
• Rhymes: -il
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [v?l]

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

1. town, city

Synonyms

• (city): cité

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

ville f pl

1. plural of villa

Latin

Noun

ville

1. vocative singular of villus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ville, vile,

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

1. city or town

Descendants

• French: ville

Norman

Etymology

From Old French ville, from Latin v?lla (“country house”).

Noun

ville f (plural villes)

1. town

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

ville

1. definite singular of vill
2. plural of vill

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljan?, from Proto-Indo-European *welh?-.

Verb

ville (present tense vil, simple past ville, past participle villet, present participle villende)

1. to want to, be willing to, shall, will, should
2. would

References

• “ville” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

ville

1. definite singular of vill
2. plural of vill

Verb

ville

1. past tense of vilja and vilje

Old French

Alternative forms

• vile
• vill (rare)

Etymology

From Latin v?lla.

Noun

ville f (oblique plural villes, nominative singular ville, nominative plural villes)

1. city or town

Descendants

• Middle French: ville
  • French: ville
• Norman: ville

See also

• cité
• vilage

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l??/

Verb

ville

1. past tense of vilja.