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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?lt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??lt/
• Homophone: vault

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

French volte

Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.
2. (fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

Noun

volt (uncountable)

1. A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.

Anagrams

• LVOT, VTOL

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v?lt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?l/

Etymology 1

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *vol?tus, from Latin vol?tus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. turn, round

Related terms

• volta
• voltar

Etymology 2

Named for Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Czech

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volt]
• Rhymes: -olt

Noun

volt m

1. volt

Related terms

• See voluta

Further reading

• volt in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• volt in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

1. volt (unit)

Derived terms

• elektronvolt

Faroese

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

French

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?lt/

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (plural [please provide])

1. volt

Synonyms

• voltio

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volt]
• Hyphenation: volt
• Rhymes: -olt

Etymology 1

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola, later vala (same meaning).

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van

Participle

volt

1. past participle of van

Adjective

volt (not comparable)

1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime

Particle

volt

1. (archaic) Used after a past-tense verb form to express past perfect.
   • 1880 (translation), 411 BC (original), János Arany (translator), Aristophanes (original), A n?k ünnepe (Thesmophoriazusae).^[1] English translation: 2007, George Theodoridis.^[2]

     A vén gaz asszony meg, ki hozta volt, ¶ Fut vigyorogva a férjhez s kiáltja:

     Then the old woman picks it up [literally, “who had brought it”] and rushes out to the husband! She puts on a big grin on her face and tells him straight out,

Etymology 2

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt (plural voltok)

1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• (the past form of van or an auxiliary particle expressing past perfect): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (former, previous, bygone): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (unit): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, nominative plural volt)

1. volt

Declension

Further reading

• volt in Icelandic dictionaries at ISLEX

Italian

Etymology

From English volt, itself named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, from Volta.

Noun

volt m (invariable)

1. volt

Latin

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular present active indicative of vol?

References

• volt in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• volt in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• vout

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. figure
2. face
3. holy image

References

• Levy, Emil. 1923. Petit dictionnaire provençal-français. Heidelberg: Winter. Page 386.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

1. face

Synonyms

• face, visage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (volt)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vóltio (rare)

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt (unit of measure)

Romanian

Etymology

From French volt.

Noun

volt m (plural vol?i)

1. volt

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. volt

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v??t/

Noun

volt m (genitive singular voltu, nominative plural volty, genitive plural voltov, declension pattern of dub)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Derived terms

• voltový
• voltáž

Further reading

• volt in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From French volte, from Italian volta (“a turn, rotation”).

Noun

volt c

1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.

   Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.

   The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

Declension

Anagrams

• tolv

Tatar

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

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Declension

English

Etymology

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

Noun

volta (plural voltas)

1. (music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
2. (music, dance) A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.

   Synonyms: levalto, volte

3. (poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.

Further reading

• Volta (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lovat

Catalan

Etymology 1

From the verb voltar (“to turn, spin around”)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?v?l.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?l.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v?l.ta/

Noun

volta f (plural voltes)

1. turn, spin
2. (architecture) vault (an arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling)
3. lap (of a track)
4. time (instance)

   Synonyms: cop, vegada

5. (cycling) tour (bicycle race)

Derived terms

Related terms

• voltar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

volta

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

Further reading

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

Czech

Etymology

Latin volvo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volta]

Noun

volta f

1. lavolta (dance)

See also

• voluta

Further reading

• volta in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• volta in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese volta (“revolt”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) from voltar (“to turn around”), from Vulgar Latin *volt?re, from Latin vol?tus, perfect passive participle of volv? (“I tumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?lta?/

Noun

volta f (plural voltas)

1. turnaround
2. overturn
3. turn, bend

4. return

   Synonym: retorno

5. somersault

   Synonyms: pirueta, pinchacarneiro, pinchagato, reviravolta

6. change (money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item)

7. backside

8. detour
9. walk, stroll
   • 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

     Ali dei tres voltas

     como de recreo

     Axiña ò deixei

     Voltei para ò eido,

     I went there for three strolls,

     as if recreating.

     Soon I left it,

     went back to my home

   Synonym: paseo

10. turn of events
11. (archaic) disturbance, riot, revolt
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:

      Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýr

      And the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the shouts and the yells and the sound of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself

    Synonym: revolta

Derived terms

• dar unha volta
• dar voltas
• reviravolta

Related terms

• revolta
• voltar

References

• “volta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “volta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “bolta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “volta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “volta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “volta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

From the original vol- stem of van (“to be”) +? -t (noun-forming suffix) +? -a (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volt?]
• Hyphenation: vol?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

Noun

volta

1. being, character, condition, rank, nature, or quality of someone or something

   Synonyms: (character, nature, feature) jelleg, (-ness) -ság/-ség

   • 1915, Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Hungarian translation: Miklós Györffy; English translation: Ian Johnston)

     Húga persze igyekezett leplezni az egésznek a kínos voltát, és ahogy telt az id?, ez egyre jobban sikerült is neki (…)

     The sister admittedly sought to cover up the awkwardness of everything as much as possible, and, as time went by, she naturally got more successful at it. (literally, “…cover up the whole [thing] being awkward…” or “the awkward nature of the whole [thing]…”)

     Samsa úr, bizalmatlanságában, amelynek alaptalan volta nyilvánvalóvá vált, a két n?vel együtt kilépett az el?térre (…)

     In what turned out to be an entirely groundless mistrust, Mr. Samsa stepped with the two women out onto the landing (…) (literally, “Mr. Samsa in his mistrust, whose being groundless became evident,…”)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• volta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English volt.

Noun

volta m (genitive singular volta, nominative plural voltanna)

1. (electricity) volt

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• "volta" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “volta” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “volta” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l.ta/
• Rhymes: -?lta

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin root *volta, from *vol?ta (perhaps via *volvita (“a turn”)), from the feminine form of Latin vol?tus, perfect passive participle of volv?. Also possibly from the past participle of volgere (volto), or from the verb voltare. Compare Spanish vuelta; cf. also Spanish bóveda, French voûte.

Noun

volta f (plural volte)

1. time, instance, occasion

2. turn
3. (architecture, anatomy) vault

   Synonym: cupola

Descendants

• ? German: Volte
  • ? Swedish: volt
    • ? Finnish: voltti
• ? Greek: ????? (vólta, “turn, walk”)
• ? Slavomolisano: vota
• ? Turkish: volta

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Participle

volta

1. feminine singular of volto

Etymology 3

Verb

volta

1. third-person singular present of voltare
2. second-person singular imperative of voltare

Latin

Alternative forms

• vulta
• volt?s

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?ul.ta/, [?u?o??t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vul.ta/, [?vul?t??]

Noun

volta n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of voltum (“expression, appearance; image, likeness; face; visage, countenance”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?vol?ta/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

volta

1. volt

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

volta

1. somersault, volte

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese volta (“turnaround”), from voltar (“to turn around”), from Vulgar Latin *volt?re, from Latin vol?tus, perfect passive participle of volv? (“I tumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn around”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?v??t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?v?wta/, /?v?wt?/
• Homophone: Volta

Noun

volta f (plural voltas)

1. return (act of returning)

   Synonyms: regresso, retorno

   Antonyms: ida, saída

2. a bend in a course, line, pipe, etc.

   Synonyms: curva, meandro, serpeio, sinuosidade, volteio

   Antonym: reta

3. turnaround (act of turning around)

   Synonyms: giro, torneio, virada

4. a loop of a coil or spiral staircase
5. loop (length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over)
6. (figuratively) volte-face (a reversal of policy, attitude or principle)

   Synonyms: guinada, reviravolta, virada

7. stroll; walk

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

volta

1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of voltar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of voltar