Vila

See also: vila, vilã, víla, vilà, viľă, and vilă

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Vila f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – certain butterflies of South America.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Ditrysia – division; Cossina – section; Bombycina – subsection; Papilionoidea – superfamily; Papilioniformes – series; Nymphalidae – family; Biblidinae – subfamily; Biblidini – tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Vila azeca, Vila emilia – selected species

References

• Vila (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nymphalidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Vila (Nymphalidae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Vila

2. (informal) The capital and largest city of Vanuatu; in full, Port Vila.
   • 2006, Ted Freeman, Doctor in Vanuatu, Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, →ISBN, page 27:

     When it became obvious that Vila would be the capital of the New Hebrides, Dr H. Bolton from Edinburgh was appointed to the mission and, in 1911, Paton Memorial Hospital was built.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish Vila.

Proper noun

Vila (plural Vilas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Vila is the 10615^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3016 individuals. Vila is most common among Hispanic/Latino (70.29%) and White (22.21%) individuals.

See also

• Vila Vila

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Vila”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• LAIV, VALI, Vail, Vali, Vial, vail, vali, vial

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Vila

1. Vila, Port Vila (the capital and largest city of Vanuatu)

   Synonym: Port Vila

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbi.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvi.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvi.la]

Proper noun

Vila f

1. A small town in Encamp parish, Andorra

Galician

Etymology

From vila (“village”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbila̝/

Proper noun

Vila f

1. a large number of villages and parishes throughout Galicia, Spain
2. a toponymical surname

See also

• Vila on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

References

• “Vila” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
• “Vila” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.