volt

See also: Volt

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

French volte

Noun

volt (plural volts)

  1. A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.
  2. (fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for volt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *volŭtus, from Latin volūtus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. turn, round
  2. volt

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvolt]
  • Rhymes: -olt

Noun

volt m

  1. volt

Further reading

  • volt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • volt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

  1. volt (unit)

Derived terms

Faroese

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɔl̥t/
  • Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

  1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Declension of volt
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative volt voltið volt voltini
accusative volt voltið volt voltini
dative volti voltinum voltum voltunum
genitive volts voltsins volta voltanna

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɔlt/
  • Audio (Paris)(file)

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt

Further reading

Galician

Noun

volt m (plural [please provide])

  1. volt

Synonyms

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvolt]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: volt

Etymology 1

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola (same meaning).

Adjective

volt (not comparable)

  1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime
    az egyetem volt tanára ― the former professor of the university

Verb

volt

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van
    Milyen volt az előadás? ― How was the show?
  2. past participle of van

Etymology 2

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.[1]

Noun

volt (plural voltok)

  1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative volt voltok
accusative voltot voltokat
dative voltnak voltoknak
instrumental volttal voltokkal
causal-final voltért voltokért
translative volttá voltokká
terminative voltig voltokig
essive-formal voltként voltokként
essive-modal — —
inessive voltban voltokban
superessive volton voltokon
adessive voltnál voltoknál
illative voltba voltokba
sublative voltra voltokra
allative volthoz voltokhoz
elative voltból voltokból
delative voltról voltokról
ablative volttól voltoktól
Possessive forms of volt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. voltom voltjaim
2nd person sing. voltod voltjaid
3rd person sing. voltja voltjai
1st person plural voltunk voltjaink
2nd person plural voltotok voltjaitok
3rd person plural voltjuk voltjaik

References

Italian

Noun

volt m (invariable)

  1. volt

Latin

Verb

volt

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of volō

References

  • volt in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • volt in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

  1. face

Synonyms

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (volt)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt (unit of measure)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

volt m (Cyrillic spelling волт)

  1. volt

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔɫt/

Noun

volt m (genitive singular voltu, nominative plural volty, genitive plural voltov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • volt in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Noun

volt c

  1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
  2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.
    Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.
    The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

Declension

Declension of volt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative volt volten volter volterna
Genitive volts voltens volters volternas

Tatar

Noun

volt

  1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.
80 meñ volt ― 80 thousand volts

Declension

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