voie

From Old French voie, veie, inherited from Latin via. Doublet of via. Unrelated to voir and voirie, despite influencing the latter[1].

• IPA^(key): /vwa/, /vwɑ/

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• Homophones: voient, voies, vois, voit, voix (general), voua, vouas, vouât (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -a

voie f (plural voies)

1. way, track

   Synonym: (Switzerland) vie

2. lane (of a highway)
3. (figuratively) calling, path in life

   trouver sa voie ― to find one's calling

• dévier
• vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

voie

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of voir

• “voie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• veie (Anglo-Norman)

From Latin via.

voie f (oblique plural voies, nominative singular voie, nominative plural voies)

1. path; lane; route
2. trip; journey

• chemin
• curs
• route

• Middle French: voie
  • French: voie

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic волꙗ (volja), from Proto-Slavic *voľà. Compare Serbo-Croatian volja, Bulgarian воля (volja). Has also influenced variants of the verb vrea, from Latin volere (compare vroi, voi) due to similarity of sound and meaning, especially after the weak r is removed. The existence of Italian voglia with a similar meaning is also most likely a coincidence, and a Latin etymology for voie (from a root *volia for volō on the basis of the disappearance of the intervocalic l in some other words like muiere, foaie, găină, pai), while technically possible, is quite improbable (the presence of the related word nevoie also makes this less plausible, and nonetheless, the result would probably have normally been *voaie, as with foaie, from folia); however, there are other cases where words can be of two originally different origins with similar meanings and sound and coincide to form one word after a while through confusion of the two.

However, both Latin and Slavic point to Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, making the Romance terms cognates.

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voie f (plural voi)

1. will
2. permission

   Nu ai voie să faci așa ceva.

   You don't have permission to do something like that.

• voință, vrere

• avea voie
• voios

• nevoie