le
masculine
/vi.laʒ/
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Translation
village
Word origin
From Latin villaticum ('group of farm buildings'), from villa ('country house, farm estate'). The same villa root gives English village, villa and (via the medieval sense of a farm labourer) villain.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- villa
- English cognates
- village, villa, villain
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluralvillages
Examples
- Bretagne.
My grandparents live in a small village in Brittany.
habitants.
The village has barely two hundred residents.
.
We went through several small villages on the way.
- montagne.
My grandfather was born in a small mountain village.
nationale.
The whole village came for the national holiday.
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