Translation
country house, farm; estate
Examples
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The country house stands in the field.
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We came to the villa before nightfall.
pulchram .
He has a large and beautiful country house.
laborabant.
Many slaves were working on the estate.
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The master of the villa is far away.
Villa, villae, f., first declension. Not a holiday house. A Roman villa is a working agricultural estate with the owner's quarters attached - the villa rustica for the farming and the slaves, the villa urbana for the family when they came out from town - and Cato writes about running one the way you would write about running a business.
Then it shifts. In medieval Latin villa comes to mean the settlement itself, a village or a small town, which is how it produces French ville and Spanish villa. Read it as "farm" in Cicero and as "town" in a charter, and check the century before you commit.
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