Viola

See also: viola, vióla, víóla, violá, violà, and Vióla

Translingual

Viola tricolor

Etymology

Latin viola (“violet”)

Proper noun

Viola f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Violaceae – the violets.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Hesperiidae – certain of the butterflies called skippers.

Hypernyms

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Further reading

English

Etymology

From Latin viola (“violet”)

Proper noun

Viola

  1. A female given name.
    • 1599 William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene 1:
      Were you a woman as the rest goes even, / I should my tears let fall upon your cheek, / And say, 'Thrice welcome, drowned Viola!'
  2. A town in Arkansas
  3. A town in Delaware
  4. A village in Illinois
  5. A city in Kansas
  6. A hamlet in New York
  7. A town in Tennessee
  8. A village in Wisconsin

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Anagrams

Czech

Proper noun

Viola f

  1. A female given name., cognate to Viola.

Danish

Proper noun

Viola

  1. A female given name. of Latin origin.

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin viola in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviolɑ/
  • Hyphenation: Vi‧o‧la

Proper noun

Viola

  1. A female given name..
    • 1984 Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, pages 45-46:
      Helenalle valkeni että Marjatan äidillä oli sama nimi kaksi kertaa: Viola Orvokki. Kuitenkin nimet olivat kuin toistensa vastakohtia: Viola kellanvaaleana sulatejuustopakkauksessa ja toisaalta Orvokkini tummasilmä.

Declension

Inflection of Viola (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative Viola Violat
genitive Violan Violojen
partitive Violaa Violoja
illative Violaan Violoihin
singular plural
nominative Viola Violat
accusative nom. Viola Violat
gen. Violan
genitive Violan Violojen
Violainrare
partitive Violaa Violoja
inessive Violassa Violoissa
elative Violasta Violoista
illative Violaan Violoihin
adessive Violalla Violoilla
ablative Violalta Violoilta
allative Violalle Violoille
essive Violana Violoina
translative Violaksi Violoiksi
instructive — Violoin
abessive Violatta Violoitta
comitative — Violoineen

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

The given name derived from Latin viola (“a violet”). The surname can be matronymic, but more often occupational, for a dyer of violet cloth, or a player of the viola.

Proper noun

Viola ?

  1. A female given name..
  2. A surname​.

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Viola f (genitive Violy, nominative plural Violy) declension pattern žena

  1. A female given name..

Declension

Further reading

  • Viola in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Occupational surname for a viola player, from Late Latin vitula, or for a dyer or seller of violet fabric.

Proper noun

Viola ?

  1. A surname​.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin viola (“violet”). First recorded in Sweden in 1844.

Proper noun

Viola c (genitive Violas)

  1. A female given name..

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 57 207 females with the given name Viola living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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