different between village vs locale

English

Etymology

From Middle English village, from Old French village, from Latin vill?ticus, ultimately from Latin villa (English villa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l?d??/
• Hyphenation: vil?lage
• Rhymes: -?l?d?

Noun

village (plural villages)

1. A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.

2. (Britain) A rural habitation that has a church, but no market.
3. (Australia) A planned community such as a retirement community or shopping district.
4. (Philippines) A gated community.

Synonyms

• thorp (archaic)

Hypernyms

• settlement

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• villa
• -wich
• wick

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin villaticus, from villa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.la?/

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village
2. (Louisiana) town, city

Related terms

• villageois

Further reading

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

Occitan

Alternative forms

• vilage

Noun

village m (plural villages)

1. village

English

Etymology

From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l???k??l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo??kæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

locale (plural locales)

1. The place where something happens.

   Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.

2. (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
3. (mathematics) A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): spatial locale

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.kal/

Adjective

locale

1. feminine singular of local

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin loc?lis, loc?lem, from Latin locus.

Adjective

locale (plural locali)

1. local

Noun

locale m (plural locali)

1. room

Related terms

• località
• localizzare
• localmente
• locare
• locativo
• luogo

Anagrams

• alcole

Latin

Adjective

loc?le

1. nominative neuter singular of loc?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of loc?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of loc?lis

References

• locale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)