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Translation

villa

Word origin

From Latin villa, a country estate with its farm buildings. The same word gave French ville, a town, because the estates grew into settlements, and from there English village and villain, which originally meant nothing worse than a farm worker.

Origin
Latin
Root
villa
English cognates
villa, village, villain

Examples

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They rented a villa by the sea.

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The villa has a large garden.

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Behind the wall stands a white villa.

One root, and not the hairy one. Esperanto has an adjective , meaning shaggy or covered in hair, from Latin villus, a tuft. It is a rare word and it is not related to this one, which comes from Latin villa, a country house. Same first three letters, different Latin, different meaning: a is not a hairy anything. There is no seam to cut here either - vil- is the whole root and -ao is not a suffix, just the root's own a followed by the noun ending.

The cousin you already know. Vilaĝo, a village, at rank 498, is from the same Latin villa by way of French village - the estate that turned into a settlement. So and really are relatives, unlike and . This is the pattern of the whole chapter in miniature: the resemblance you can see is the false one and the resemblance you cannot see is real.

What it means now. A is a detached house with grounds, usually comfortable, usually somewhere pleasant - the seaside, the hills, the edge of a city. It carries a whiff of lukso without insisting on it. A bieno is the working estate or farm, a domo any house at all, o a mansion by size rather than by style, and a cottage.

ancestry, still visible. The Latin villa was a working farm with a comfortable house attached, and the archaeology of Roman Britain is largely the archaeology of these. The modern word kept the comfort and dropped the farm, which is roughly what happened to the buildings.

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This word is part of lesson 55.