volta

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

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.

• Volta (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• lovat, votal

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

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔl.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.ta/

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)

• voltar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

volta

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

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

Latin volvo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolta]

volta f

1. lavolta (dance)

• voluta

• volta in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• volta in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔlta̝/

volta f (plural voltas)

1. turnaround
2. overturn
3. turn, bend

   Esa estrada ten moitas voltas. ― That road has many bends.

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)

   Paguei dez euros e deume cinco de volta. ― I paid ten euros and he hand me five in change

7. backside

   Na volta hai un debuxo. ― On the backside there is a sketch.

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

• dar unha volta
• dar voltas
• reviravolta

• revolta
• voltar

• “volta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “volta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bolta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

From the original vol- stem of van (“to be”) +‎ -ta (amalgamated noun-forming suffix), the latter from -t (noun-forming suffix) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvoltɒ]
• Hyphenation: vol‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

volta

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

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

   • 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 idő, 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 nővel együtt kilépett az előtérre (…)

     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,…”)

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

Borrowed from English volt.

volta m (genitive singular volta, nominative plural voltanna)

1. (electricity) volt

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “volta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlta
• Hyphenation: vòl‧ta

volta f (plural volte)

1. time, instance, occasion

   a volte ― sometimes

   due volte alla settimana ― twice a week

   tre volte tre fa nove ― three times three is nine

2. turn
3. (architecture) vault

   Coordinate term: cupola

   Hyponyms: volta a botte, volta a crociera, volta a vela

4. (anatomy) vault

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvol.ta/
• Rhymes: -olta
• Hyphenation: vól‧ta

volta f sg

1. feminine singular of volto (“facing, concerning”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlta
• Hyphenation: vòl‧ta

volta f sg

1. feminine singular of volto (“(having) turned”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlta
• Hyphenation: vòl‧ta

volta

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

• vulta
• voltūs

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ul.ta/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪t̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvul.ta/, [ˈvul̪t̪ä]

volta n

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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈvolːta/

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

volta

1. volt

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

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

volta

1. somersault, volte

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔlta
• Syllabification: vol‧ta

Borrowed from French volte, from Italian volta.

volta f

1. Alternative spelling of wolta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

volta m inan

1. genitive singular of volt

• volta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• volta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Homophone: Volta
• Hyphenation: vol‧ta

From Old Portuguese volta (“turnaround”), from voltar (“to turn around”), from Vulgar Latin *voltāre, from Latin volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō (“to tumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn around”).

volta f (plural voltas)

1. return (act of returning)

   Synonyms: regresso, retorno

   Antonyms: ida, saída

   A volta do rei.

   The king’s return.

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

   Synonyms: curva, meandro, serpeio, sinuosidade, volteio

   Antonym: reta

   O barco ficou preso numa volta do riacho.

   The boat got stuck in one of the creek’s bends.

3. turnaround (act of turning around)

   Synonyms: giro, torneio, virada

   Fiz uma volta com o carro.

   I turned the car around.

   (literally, “I did a turnaround with the car.”)

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

   Synonyms: guinada, reviravolta, virada

   Não me saí bem nas voltas da vida.

   I didn’t do well in the volte-faces of life.

7. stroll; walk

   dar uma volta ― go for a walk

volta

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