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volta
English
Etymology
From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.
Noun
volta (plural voltas)
- (music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
- (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
- (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)
- turn, spin
- (architecture) vault (an arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling)
- lap (of a track)
- time (instance)
- Synonyms: cop, vegada
- (cycling) tour (bicycle race)
Derived terms
Related terms
- voltar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
volta
- third-person singular present indicative form of voltar
- 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
- 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)
- turnaround
- overturn
- turn, bend
- return
- Synonym: retorno
- somersault
- Synonyms: pirueta, pinchacarneiro, pinchagato, reviravolta
- change (money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item)
- backside
- detour
- 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
- 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:
- turn of events
- (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
- 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
- Synonym: revolta
- 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:
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
- 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,…”)
- Húga persze igyekezett leplezni az egésznek a kínos voltát, és ahogy telt az id?, ez egyre jobban sikerült is neki (…)
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)
- (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)
- time, instance, occasion
- turn
- (architecture, anatomy) vault
- Synonym: cupola
Descendants
- ? German: Volte
- ? Swedish: volt
- ? Finnish: voltti
- ? Swedish: volt
- ? Greek: ????? (vólta, “turn, walk”)
- ? Slavomolisano: vota
- ? Turkish: volta
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Participle
volta
- feminine singular of volto
Etymology 3
Verb
volta
- third-person singular present of voltare
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- return (act of returning)
- Synonyms: regresso, retorno
- Antonyms: ida, saída
- a bend in a course, line, pipe, etc.
- Synonyms: curva, meandro, serpeio, sinuosidade, volteio
- Antonym: reta
- turnaround (act of turning around)
- Synonyms: giro, torneio, virada
- a loop of a coil or spiral staircase
- loop (length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over)
- (figuratively) volte-face (a reversal of policy, attitude or principle)
- Synonyms: guinada, reviravolta, virada
- stroll; walk
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
volta
- Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of voltar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of voltar
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volts
English
Noun
volts
- plural of volt
Anagrams
- STOVL, V/STOL, VTOLs, lov'st
Catalan
Noun
volts
- plural of volt
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
volts
- Plural form of volt
French
Noun
volts m
- plural of volt
Latvian
Noun
volts m (1 declension)
- volt (unit of electricity)
Declension
Swedish
Noun
volts
- indefinite genitive singular of volt
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