different between ville vs unspeakable

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

Etymology

From Middle English unspekable, equivalent to un- +? speakable.

Pronunciation

Adjective

unspeakable (comparative more unspeakable, superlative most unspeakable)

1. Incapable of being spoken or uttered

   Synonyms: unutterable, ineffable, inexpressible

   • 1855-1882, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, book xv,

     The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.

2. Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, ch. 3,

     The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.

3. Extremely bad or objectionable.

   an unspeakable fool

   an unspeakable play

   • 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider,

     Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:indescribable

Derived terms

• unspeakably
• unspeakableness

Translations

References

• unspeakable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “unspeakable” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "unspeakable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
• "unspeakable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “unspeakable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• "unspeakable" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006).
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Scots

Etymology

un- +? speak +? -able

Adjective

unspeakable (comparative mair unspeakable, superlative maist unspeakable)

1. unspeakable