voie

Etymology

From Old French voie, veie, inherited from Latin via. Doublet of via. Unrelated to voirie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vwa/, /vwɑ/

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  (file)

• Homophones: voient, voies, vois, voit, voix

Noun

voie f (plural voies)

1. way, track
2. lane (of a highway)

Verb

voie

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

Further reading

• “voie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Alternative forms

• veie (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin via.

Noun

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

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

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian volja, from Proto-Slavic *volja. Has also 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. The existence of Italian voglia with a similar meaning is also most likely a coincidence, and a 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), while technically possible, is quite improbable (the presence of the related word nevoie also makes this less plausible, and nonetheless, the result would probably have normally been *voaie, as with foaie, from folia); 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.

Noun

voie f

1. will
2. permission

   Nu ai voie să faci așa ceva.

   You're not allowed to do something like that.