different between terrible vs ville

English

Etymology

From Middle English terrible, from Old French, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terre? (“I frighten, terrify, alarm; I deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?.??.bl?/, /?t?.??.bl?/
• Homophone: tearable, in some accents

Adjective

terrible (comparative terribler or more terrible, superlative terriblest or most terrible)

1. Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome

2. Formidable, powerful.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     […] and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
3. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.

4. Unpleasant; disagreeable.

5. Very bad; lousy.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:frightening

Antonyms

• (very bad): excellent

Adverb

terrible (comparative more terrible, superlative most terrible)

1. (colloquial, dialect) In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• terrible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• terrible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• treblier

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

terrible (masculine and feminine plural terribles)

1. terrible (causing fear)
2. terrible (formidable, intense)

French

Etymology

From Latin terribilis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.?ibl/

Adjective

terrible (plural terribles)

1. (all senses) terrible
2. (colloquial) great, excellent

Derived terms

• enfant terrible

Related terms

• terreur
• terriblement
• terrifier

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin terribilis. Cognate with English terrible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?rible/, [t?e?ri.??le]
• Hyphenation: te?rri?ble

Adjective

terrible (plural terribles)

1. terrible, awful, horrible (very bad)
2. appalling (shocking, causing consternation)
3. terrific (very great or intense)

Derived terms

• terribilísimo
• terriblemente

Related terms

• terror

Further reading

• “terrible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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.