different between viola vs voila

English

Etymology 1

From Italian viola, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). Doublet of viol.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vi???.l?/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /vi?o?.l?/
• Rhymes: -??l?

Noun

viola (plural violas or viole)

1. (music) A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
2. (music) An organ stop having a similar tone.
3. (music) A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.
4. (music) A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Etymology 2

From Latin viola (“violet”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?vi?.?l?/, /?va??l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /va??o?l?/, /v??o?l?/, /?va?.?l?/

Noun

viola (plural violas)

1. (botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.

Translations

References

Etymology 3

Interjection

viola

1. (often humorous) Misconstruction of voila
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References

• Viola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Viola (instrument) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Viola (Violaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Ivalo, oliva, voila, voilà, volia

Asturian

Adjective

viola

1. violet

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vi??.l?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bi??.l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vi??.la/

Etymology 1

From Latin viola.

Noun

viola f (plural violes)

1. viola (flowering plant of the genus Viola)

Derived terms

• viola alba (V. alba)
• viola boscana (V. sylvestris, now V. reichenbachiana)
• viola canina (V. canina)
• viola groga (Caltha palustris)
• viola d'olor or viola vera (V. odorata)

Etymology 2

Uncertain origin, probably from Occitan viula, derivative of viular (“playing a string instrument” or “wind”).

Noun

viola m or f (plural violes)

1. f viola (musicial instrument)
2. m or f violist

   Synonym: violista

Etymology 3

Noun

viola f (plural violes)

1. leapfrog

Etymology 4

Verb

viola

1. third-person singular present indicative form of violar
2. second-person singular imperative form of violar

Further reading

• “viola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “viola” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “viola” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “viola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

viola f

1. viola (musical instrument of the violin family)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adjective

viola (accusative singular violan, plural violaj, accusative plural violajn)

1. of or relating to the flower violet
2. the color of such flowers, violet

   Synonym: violkolora

Finnish

Noun

viola

1. (music) viola

Declension

Anagrams

• Ivalo, Olavi, loiva, lovia, olvia, valio, valoi

French

Verb

viola

1. third-person singular past historic of violer

Anagrams

• lovai, voila, voilà, volai

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin viola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vj?.la/
• Hyphenation: viò?la

Adjective

viola (invariable)

1. purple, violet

   Synonyms: violetto, violaceo

Noun

viola f (plural viole)

1. viola, violet (plant)

   Synonym: violetta

2. violet, purple (color)

   Synonym: violetto

Derived terms

• violacciocca
• violaceo

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), ultimately from Medieval Latin *vitula (“stringed instrument”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vj?.la/
• Hyphenation: viò?la

Noun

viola f (plural viole)

1. (music) viola
2. (music) fiddle

Derived terms

• viola da braccio
• viola da gamba
• viola del pensiero

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.o.la/
• Hyphenation: vì?o?la

Verb

viola

1. inflection of violare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

Anagrams

• oliva, ovali, volai

Latin

Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek ??? (íon, “violet”) (from ????). Probably from a pre-I.E. Mediterranean substrate language. See also Middle Persian wnpšk'.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.o.la/, [?u?i???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.o.la/, [?vi??l?]

Noun

viola f (genitive violae); first declension

1. violet (flower)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Verb

viol?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of viol?

Descendants

References

• viola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viola in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?vj?.l?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vi.??.l?/
• Hyphenation: vi?o?la

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula, from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory.

Noun

viola f (plural violas)

1. (music) viola (a bowed instrument larger than a violin)
2. (music) viol (a bowed instrument of the violin family held between the legs)
3. (music) viola; viola caipira (10-string acoustic guitar used in Brazilian folk music)
4. (music, Brazil, loosely or endearing) acoustic guitar
5. guitarfish (any of the rays in the Rhinobatidae family)

Synonyms

• (viol): viola da gamba
• (viola caipira): viola caipira
• (acoustic guitar): violão, guitarra
• (guitarfish): cação-viola, raia-viola, arraia-viola

Derived terms

• violinha (diminutive)

Related terms

• viola da gamba
• violino
• violoncelo

Descendants

• ? Malay: biola
  • Indonesian: biola

Etymology 2

Verb

viola

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of violar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of violar

Romanian

Etymology

From French violer, from Latin viol?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vio?la/

Verb

a viola (third-person singular present violeaz?, past participle violat) 1st conj.

1. to violate
2. to rape

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Italian viola.

Noun

viola f (plural violas)

1. viola (musical instrument)

Etymology 2

Verb

viola

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of violar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of violar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of violar.

English

Interjection

voila

1. Alternative spelling of voilà

Translations

Anagrams

• Ivalo, Viola, oliva, viola, volia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vwa.la/

Verb

voila

1. third-person singular past historic of voiler

Anagrams

• lovai
• viola
• volai