vil
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German vil, from Old High German filu, from Proto-Germanic *felu. Cognate with German viel, Dutch veel, English fele, Icelandic fjöl-.
Derived terms
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvɪl]
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vil/, [ve(l)]
- Rhymes: -e
Faroese
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vil/
Adjective
vil (feminine vile, masculine plural vils, feminine plural viles)
- cheap, worthless
- vile (morally low)
- 1992, Nothomb, Amélie, Hygiène de l’assassin [The Assassin’s Hygiene] (fiction):
- Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VIe siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler.
- Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6th century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.
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Further reading
- “vil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vil/
Noun
vil
- city
- 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik:
- Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”
- American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are having a meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to speak about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."
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Norwegian Bokmål
Old French
Derived terms
Old Norse
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese vil, from Latin vīlis (“cheap; vile”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈviw/ [ˈviʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈvil/ [ˈviɫ]
- Homophone: viu (Brazil)
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
- Hyphenation: vil
Adjective
vil m or f (plural vis)
Derived terms
Romanian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbil/ [ˈbil]
- Rhymes: -il
- Syllabification: vil
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tzotzil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vil/
References
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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