different between ville vs dreadful

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.

English

Alternative forms

• dreadfull
• dredful (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??d.f?l/

Etymology

From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful), equivalent to dread +? -ful.

Adjective

dreadful (comparative more dreadful, superlative most dreadful)

1. Full of something causing dread, whether
   1. Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
      • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter 23:

        "...Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning..."

   2. (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
      • 1682, T. Creech's translation of Lucretius, De Natura Rerum, Book II, 52:

        Here some... Look dreadful gay in their own sparkling blood.
   3. (obsolete) Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.
2. (obsolete) Full of dread, whether
   1. Scared, afraid, frightened.
   2. Timid, easily frightened.
   3. Reverential, full of pious awe.

Adverb

dreadful (comparative more dreadful, superlative most dreadful)

1. (informal) Dreadfully.

Usage notes

The senses of "dreadful" synonymous with "afraid" similarly use the infinitive or the preposition "of": they were dreadful to build or the boy was dreadful of his majesty. These senses are, however, now obsolete.

When used as an intensifier, "dreadful" is actually a form of the adverb "dreadfully" and thus considered informal or vulgar.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:frightening
• See Thesaurus:bad

Derived terms

• dreadfully
• dreadfulness

Translations

Noun

dreadful (plural dreadfuls)

1. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
2. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
3. A shocking or sensational crime.

Derived terms

• penny dreadful

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.