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ville

See also: -ville, and Ville

English

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Noun

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ville (plural villes)

  1. (US, military, historical) A Vietnamese village.
    • 1989, Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet, page 247:
      The fighting holes and trenches scattered in and around each ville indicate battle after battle - some only planned, others fought. We move toward a tree-lined ville.
    • 1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried:
      On Halloween, this real hot spooky night, the dude paints up his body all different colors and puts on this weird mask and hikes over to a ville and goes trick-or-treating almost stark naked, just boots and balls and an M-16.

Bourguignon

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Etymology

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From Latin villa.

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Noun

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ville f (plural villes)

  1. city
  2. town

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, cognate with English will, German wollen. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, which is also the source of Latin volō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vilə/, [ˈʋilə], [ˈʋelə]

Verb

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ville (present tense vil, past tense ville, past participle villet)

  1. (transitive) to want to, be willing to
  2. (auxiliary, in the present tense) shall, will (with the infinitive, expresses future tense)
  3. (auxiliary, in the past tense) should, would (with the infinitive, expresses conditional mood)

Conjugation

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Inflection of ville
present past
simple vil ville
perfect har villet havde villet
passive villes —
participle villende villet
imperative vil —
infinitive ville —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund villen —

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Estonian

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Noun

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ville

  1. illative singular of vile

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French ville, from Old French ville, vile, inherited from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of villa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vil/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /vɪl/
  • Rhymes: -il
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Noun

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ville f (plural villes)

  1. town, city
    Synonym: cité

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Italian

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Noun

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ville f pl

  1. plural of villa

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Latin

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Noun

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ville

  1. vocative singular of villus

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French ville, vile.

Noun

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ville f (plural villes)

  1. city or town

Descendants

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  • French: ville

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French ville, from Latin vīlla (“country house”).

Noun

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ville f (plural villes)

  1. town
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[1], page 540:
      Trachier la ville par Torteval.
      To seek for the town by way of Torteval.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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ville

  1. definite singular of vill
  2. plural of vill

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

Verb

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ville (present tense vil, simple past ville, past participle villet, present participle villende)

  1. to want to, be willing to, shall, will, should
  2. would

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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ville

  1. definite singular of vill
  2. plural of vill

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ville

  1. past of vilja

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin vīlla.

Noun

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ville oblique singular, f (oblique plural villes, nominative singular ville, nominative plural villes)

  1. city or town

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Swedish

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Verb

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ville

  1. past indicative of vilja
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