Noun: vila
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | vila |
| Plural f | vilas |
Sample Sentences
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Assim fallavam alguns indivíduos pertencentes a diversas cathegorias da pequena sociedade da villa de X*** […] (Thus spoke some individuals belonging to various classes of the small society of the town of X*** […]) [1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]^(https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Contos_e_phantasias_(Maria_Amália_Vaz_de_Carvalho,_1905)), 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 80:]
Nouns inflected like vila
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese vila (“village”), from Latin villa (“country house”). Cognate with Galician vila, Spanish and Italian villa, and French ville. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
vila', Latin Nouns '
villa', Galician Nouns '
vila', French Nouns '
ville'.
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