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ville
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin villa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vij/
Noun
ville f (plural villes)
- city
- 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)
- (transitive) to want to, be willing to
- (auxiliary, in the present tense) shall, will (with the infinitive, expresses future tense)
- (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
- 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)
- 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
- plural of villa
Latin
Noun
ville
- vocative singular of villus
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French ville, vile,
Noun
ville f (plural villes)
- city or town
Descendants
- French: ville
Norman
Etymology
From Old French ville, from Latin v?lla (“country house”).
Noun
ville f (plural villes)
- town
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Adjective
ville
- definite singular of vill
- 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)
- to want to, be willing to, shall, will, should
- would
References
- “ville” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
ville
- definite singular of vill
- plural of vill
Verb
ville
- 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)
- city or town
Descendants
- Middle French: ville
- French: ville
- Norman: ville
See also
- cité
- vilage
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?l??/
Verb
ville
- past tense of vilja.
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foul
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: foul, IPA(key): /fa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
- Homophone: fowl
- Rhymes: -a??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English foul, from Old English f?l (“foul, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, guilty”), from Proto-Germanic *f?laz (“foul, rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot”). Cognate with Dutch vuil (“foul”), German faul (“rotten, putrid”), Danish and Swedish ful (“foul”), and through Indo-European, with Albanian fëlliq (“to make dirty”), Latin puter (“rotten”). More at putrid.
Ancient Greek ?????? (phaûlos, “bad”) is a false cognate inasmuch as it is not from the same etymon, instead being cognate to few.
Adjective
foul (comparative fouler, superlative foulest)
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- (of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene ii[1]:
- […] Hast thou forgot / The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy / Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene ii[1]:
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
- (of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "foul" is often applied: play, ball, language, breath, smell, odor, water, weather, deed.
Synonyms
- (hateful, detestable): shameful; odious; wretched
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English f?lian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-Germanic *f?l?n? (“to rot; decay”).
Verb
foul (third-person singular simple present fouls, present participle fouling, simple past and past participle fouled)
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- to foul the face or hands with mire
- She's fouled her diaper.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- He's fouled his reputation.
- (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [2]
- The Indian's heart was sore for his boat; it looked as if nothing could save her. She was drifting more slowly now, her propeller fouled in kelp.
- The kelp has fouled the prop.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [2]
- (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- Smith fouled him hard.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- The drain fouled.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- The prop fouled on the kelp.
- (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul.
- Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- Jones fouled for strike one.
Derived terms
- foul one's own nest
Translations
Noun
foul (plural fouls)
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
- Jones hit a foul up over the screen.
Descendants
- ? Russian: ??? (fol)
Translations
See also
- foul fish
Further reading
- foul in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- foul in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- foul at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- fluo-
German
Verb
foul
- singular imperative of foulen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of foulen
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French fol.
Noun
foul
- Alternative form of fole (“fool”)
Etymology 2
From Old English fugol.
Noun
foul
- Alternative form of fowel
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