Etymograph

English

villa

Villa comes from Italian villa ‘detached house, residence’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- ‘settlement’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyḱ-‘settlement’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*weikslāreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvīlla‘country house’
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentvilla‘detached house, residence’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1905same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyḱ-‘settlement’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*weikslāreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvīlla‘country house’
  4. Italianc. 1300–presentvilla‘detached house, residence’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1905same form

Earliest quotation: 1905, E. Nesbit: “They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- ‘settlement’

parish, ecology, vicinity, diocese, wick, parochial, 41 more

through Latin vīlla ‘country house’

vaudeville, ville, 7 more

Another origin of villa

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyḱ-‘settlement’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*weikslāreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvīlla‘country house’
  4. Englishtodayvilla

Today it means

noun A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- / villa

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