villa B2 Topic:Time US /ˈvɪlə/ See IPA manual Freq #4911 Meanings 1 noun A large, comfortable house, often in the countryside or by the sea and used for holidays. They rented a villa on the coast for the summer. 2 noun A country house in ancient Rome, with its surrounding farm buildings. Archaeologists uncovered a Roman villa near the river. Thesaurus Word family Forms villas Related forms dacha Etymology AI details Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville. *weyḱ- Proto-Indo-European villa Italian vīlla Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Time External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # villa **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈvɪlə/ **Frequency rank:** 4911 ## Meanings 1. A large, comfortable house, often in the countryside or by the sea and used for holidays. 2. A country house in ancient Rome, with its surrounding farm buildings. ## Examples - They rented a villa on the coast for the summer. - Archaeologists uncovered a Roman villa near the river. ## Related Forms - dacha ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *weyḱ- - Root: villa - Root: vīlla ## Etymology Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville. ## AI Etymology Villa is borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville. Important historical forms include Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-, Italian villa, and Latin vīlla. In present-day use, it can mean a large, comfortable house, often in the countryside or by the sea and used for holidays, or a country house in ancient Rome, with its surrounding farm buildings. Related words include dacha. ## Topics - Time markdown