viola

Viola mandshurica, one of the flowering plants of the genus Viola

From Latin viola (“violet”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈviː.ələ/, /ˈvaɪələ/[1][2]
• (US) IPA^(key): /vaɪˈoʊlə/, /vɪˈoʊlə/, /ˈvaɪ.ələ/[3]

viola (plural violas)

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

A viola is a stringed instrument of the violin family

A viola is a stringed instrument of the guitar family

From Italian viola, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”), possibly from Frankish *fiþulā (“violin, fiddle”). Doublet of viol. Also possibly a doublet of fiddle.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /viˈəʊ.lə/ [4][5]
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /viˈoʊ.lə/[6]

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• Rhymes: -əʊlə

viola (plural violas or (senses 1 and 2, uncommon) viole)

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

viola

1. (often humorous) Misconstruction of voila.
   • 1988, “Hey Vern, It's Pets”, in Hey, Vern, It's Ernest!, spoken by Dr. Otto (Jim Varney):

     And viola, Eureka California! I have finished my greatest invention: the worst dog in the world!

   • 2011, Hedge Funds for Dummies:

     [...] ; you fill out a form; you write your check; and viola! You're a mutual fund shareholder.

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

• Ivalo, oliva, voila, voilà, volia

viola (plural violas)

1. a viola (string instrument).

   Synonym: altviool

2. violist

   Synonyms: altvioolspeler, altviolis

• viool

viola (epicene, plural violes)

1. violet

viola m (plural violes)

1. violet (colour)

viola f (plural violes)

1. violet (flower)

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /viˈɔ.lə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /biˈɔ.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /viˈɔ.la/

From Latin viola.

viola f (plural violes)

1. viola (flowering plant of the genus Viola)

• 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)

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

viola m or f (plural violes)

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

   Synonym: violista

viola f (plural violes)

1. leapfrog

   Synonym: saltar i parar

viola

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

• “viola” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “viola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

viola f

1. viola (musical instrument of the violin family)

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

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

   Synonym: violkolora

From Italian viola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiolɑ/, [ˈʋio̞lɑ]
• Rhymes: -iolɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧o‧la

viola

1. (music) viola

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

viola

1. third-person singular past historic of violer

• lovai, voila, voilà, volai

Borrowed from Latin viola.

• IPA^(key): /viˈɔ.la/, /ˈvjɔ.la/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: vi‧ò‧la, viò‧la

viola (invariable)

1. purple, violet

   Synonyms: violetto, violaceo

viola f (plural viole)

1. viola, violet (plant)

   Synonym: violetta

2. violet, purple (color)

   Synonym: violetto

• violacciocca
• violaceo

Possibly from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), ultimately from Medieval Latin *vitula (“stringed instrument”), which could be related to the goddess Latin vitula.

• IPA^(key): /viˈɔ.la/, /ˈvjɔ.la/[2]
• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Hyphenation: vi‧ò‧la, viò‧la

viola f (plural viole)

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

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

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “violin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.o.la/
• Rhymes: -iola
• Hyphenation: vì‧o‧la

viola

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

• viola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• oliva, ovali, voilà, volai

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.o.la/, [ˈu̯iɔɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.o.la/, [ˈviːolä]

viola f (genitive violae); first declension

1. violet (flower)

First-declension noun.

violā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of violō

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• Hyphenation: vi‧o‧la

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

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)

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

• viola da gamba
• violino
• violoncelo

• → Malay: biola
  • Indonesian: biola

viola

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

From French violer, from Latin violō.

• IPA^(key): /vioˈla/

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

1. to violate
2. to rape

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjola/ [ˈbjo.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: vio‧la

From Italian viola.

viola f (plural violas)

1. viola (musical instrument)

viola

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

• “viola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014