voie

See also: võie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vwa/ ~ /vwɑ/

• Audio:

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• avoyer
• dévoyer
• en voie de
• envoyer
• les voies de Dieu sont impénétrables
• ouvrir la voie
• par voie de conséquence
• sur la bonne voie
• trouver sa voie
• voie de circulation
• voie de communication
• voie de droit
• voie de fait
• voie de garage
• voie ferrée
• voie lactée
• Voie lactée
• voie métabolique
• voie rapide
• voie romaine
• voie royale
• voie sans issue
• voie verte

 

Related terms

• dévier
• vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

voie

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• veie (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin via.

Noun

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

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

Synonyms

• chemin
• curs
• route

Descendants

• Middle French: voie
  • French: voie

Romanian

Etymology

Origin disputed. It is either from a Vulgar Latin root *volia, remodeled from Latin volō or Old Church Slavonic волꙗ (volja), Proto-Slavic *voľà, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”). It has been argued that the 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) is quite improbable because the result would probably have normally been *voaie, as with foaie, from Latin folia. The presence of the related Slavic loanword nevoie also makes this less plausible, and that the existence of Italian voglia with a similar meaning is also most likely a coincidence.

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. Also, note that Old Church Slavonic волꙗ (volja) entered Slavic vocabularly with the translation of Bible in 9th century, based on the language spoken in Makedonia of the presumptive Slavic speakers. It is highly likely that these speakers adopted a Vulgar Latin word to express this abstract meaning.

It has 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. Compare Italian voglia, Bulgarian воля (volja) and Serbo-Croatian volja. Compare also English volition of Latin origin, and German Wille, first attested only one century earlier than the Old Church Slavonic form.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.je/
• Hyphenation: vo‧ie

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oje

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of voie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) voie	voia	(niște) voi	voile
genitive/dative	(unei) voi	voii	(unor) voi	voilor
vocative	—		—

Synonyms

• voință, vrere

Derived terms

• avea voie
• voios

Related terms

• nevoie