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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?lt/, /v??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /v?lt/, /v?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt, -?lt
• Homophone: volt (in some accents)
• The l was originally suppressed in pronunciation.

Etymology 1

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *vol?ta, a regularization of Latin vol?ta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”). Doublet of volute.

Noun

vault (plural vaults)

1. An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault

2. Any arched ceiling or roof.
3. (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.

   • 1636, George Sandys, A Paraphrase on Job

     the silent vaults of death

   • 1985, Bible (NJB), Genesis, 1:6:

     God said, ‘Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’

4. The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
5. Any cellar or underground storeroom.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyrick on the Dean

     to banish rats that haunt our vault

6. Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.

7. The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.

8. (often figuratively) Any archive of past content.
9. (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
10. (obsolete) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
11. (obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
12. (obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.

Synonyms

• (outhouse or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (gymnastic apparatus): vaulting table

Hyponyms

Translations

Verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

1. (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French volter (“to turn or spin around; to frolic”), borrowed from Italian voltare, itself from a Vulgar Latin frequentative form of Latin volvere; later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To jump or leap over.

Derived terms

• vaulter
• vaulting

Translations

Noun

vault (plural vaults)

1. An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
2. (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
3. (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
4. (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
5. (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.

Translations

See also

• pole vault
• vaulting horse

Further reading

• vault on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?lt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??lt/
• Homophone: vault

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

French volte

Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.
2. (fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

Noun

volt (uncountable)

1. A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.

Anagrams

• LVOT, VTOL

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v?lt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?l/

Etymology 1

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *vol?tus, from Latin vol?tus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. turn, round

Related terms

• volta
• voltar

Etymology 2

Named for Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Czech

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volt]
• Rhymes: -olt

Noun

volt m

1. volt

Related terms

• See voluta

Further reading

• volt in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• volt in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

1. volt (unit)

Derived terms

• elektronvolt

Faroese

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

French

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?lt/

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (plural [please provide])

1. volt

Synonyms

• voltio

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volt]
• Hyphenation: volt
• Rhymes: -olt

Etymology 1

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola, later vala (same meaning).

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van

Participle

volt

1. past participle of van

Adjective

volt (not comparable)

1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime

Particle

volt

1. (archaic) Used after a past-tense verb form to express past perfect.
   • 1880 (translation), 411 BC (original), János Arany (translator), Aristophanes (original), A n?k ünnepe (Thesmophoriazusae).^[1] English translation: 2007, George Theodoridis.^[2]

     A vén gaz asszony meg, ki hozta volt, ¶ Fut vigyorogva a férjhez s kiáltja:

     Then the old woman picks it up [literally, “who had brought it”] and rushes out to the husband! She puts on a big grin on her face and tells him straight out,

Etymology 2

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt (plural voltok)

1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• (the past form of van or an auxiliary particle expressing past perfect): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (former, previous, bygone): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (unit): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, nominative plural volt)

1. volt

Declension

Further reading

• volt in Icelandic dictionaries at ISLEX

Italian

Etymology

From English volt, itself named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, from Volta.

Noun

volt m (invariable)

1. volt

Latin

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular present active indicative of vol?

References

• volt in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• volt in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• vout

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. figure
2. face
3. holy image

References

• Levy, Emil. 1923. Petit dictionnaire provençal-français. Heidelberg: Winter. Page 386.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

1. face

Synonyms

• face, visage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (volt)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vóltio (rare)

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt (unit of measure)

Romanian

Etymology

From French volt.

Noun

volt m (plural vol?i)

1. volt

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. volt

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v??t/

Noun

volt m (genitive singular voltu, nominative plural volty, genitive plural voltov, declension pattern of dub)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Derived terms

• voltový
• voltáž

Further reading

• volt in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From French volte, from Italian volta (“a turn, rotation”).

Noun

volt c

1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.

   Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.

   The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

Declension

Anagrams

• tolv

Tatar

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

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Declension