via

See also: Via, vía, viâ, and vỉa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪə/, /ˈviː.ə/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪə, -iːə

Etymology 1

via (2) on a printed circuit board

Borrowed from Latin via (“road”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Possible doublet of way. The sense in electronics is also explained as vertical interconnect access.

Noun

via (plural vias or viae)

1. A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
2. (electronics) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.

Derived terms

• via affirmativa
• Via Crucis
• Via Dolorosa
• Via Egnatia
• via ferrata
• via glareata
• Via Lactea
• via media
• via munita
• via negativa
• via terrena

 

Related terms

• viaticum
• viator

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin viā (“by the way (of)”), ablative singular of via (“way, road”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

Alternative forms

• viâ

Preposition

via

1. By way of; passing through.

   They drove from New York to Los Angeles via Omaha.

   You can enter the building via the western gate.

2. By (means of); using.

   I'll send you the information via e-mail.

   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

   • 2005, “Capacity Bounds For MIMO Poisson Channels With Intersymbol Interference, Appendix C”, in Enrico Forestieri, editor, Optical Communication Theory and Techniques, →ISBN, page 44:

     Under the assumptions of Proposition 5 the entropies h(τ) and H(k) are related via the following equation: […]

Derived terms

• via-satellite

Translations

by way of

• Arabic: بِوَاسِطَة (biwāsiṭa), عَن طَرِيق (ʕan ṭarīq)
• Bashkir: аша (aşa)
• Bulgarian: през (bg) (prez)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經由 / 经由 (zh) (jīngyóu), 通過 / 通过 (zh) (tōngguò)

• Czech: přes (cs)
• Danish: via (da), langs, over (da), gennem (da)
• Dutch: via (nl), langs (nl)
• Estonian: kaudu
• Finnish: kautta (fi)
• French: via (fr)
• Georgian: -ით (-it), საშუალებით (sašualebit)
• German: über (de), durch (de), via (de)
• Hebrew: דֶּרֶךְ (he) (dérekh)
• Japanese: …経由で (…けいゆで, …keiyu de, …けいゆうで, …keiyū de), …経て (…へて, …hete)
• Macedonian: преку (preku)
• Malay: melalui
• Maori: mā (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: via (no)

  Nynorsk: via

• Polish: via (pl), drogą, przez (pl)
• Portuguese: via (pt)
• Romanian: via (ro)
• Russian: че́рез (ru) (čérez) (+ accusative case), сквозь (ru) (skvozʹ) (+ accusative case), посре́дством (ru) (posrédstvom) (+ genitive case)
• Scottish Gaelic: taobh
• Serbo-Croatian: preko (sh)
• Slovene: via
• Spanish: vía (es), por (es)
• Swedish: via (sv), över (sv), genom (sv)
• Telugu: వయా (vayā)
• Urdu: بَراہ (barāh)

by (means of); using (a medium)

• Arabic: بِـ (ar) (bi-)
• Bashkir: аша (aşa)
• Bulgarian: посредством (bg) (posredstvom)
• Catalan: mitjançant (ca), per mitjà
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通過 / 通过 (zh) (tōngguò)

• Czech: pomocí (cs)
• Danish: per, via (da)
• Dutch: via (nl), per (nl)
• Esperanto: per (eo)
• Finnish: -lla (fi) (adessiivi), -itse (fi) (prolative), kautta (fi)
• French: via (fr)
• Georgian: საშუალებით (sašualebit), გავლით (gavlit), დახმარებით (daxmarebit)
• German: per (de), mittels (de), vermittels (de), via (de), durch (de), über (de)
• Italian: via (it), per (it)
• Japanese: …で (…de), …によって (…ni yotte)
• Macedonian: преку (preku)
• Malay: melalui
• Maori: mā (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: via (no)

  Nynorsk: via

• Polish: via (pl), drogą, przez (pl)
• Portuguese: via (pt)
• Romanian: via (ro), prin (ro)
• Russian: посре́дством (ru) (posrédstvom) (+ genitive case), с по́мощью (ru) (s pómoščʹju) (+ genitive case), че́рез (ru) (čérez) (+ accusative case), по (ru) (po) (+ dative case)
• Spanish: por (es)
• Swedish: per (sv), via (sv)

Interjection

via

1. (obsolete) Away! Be off!

Anagrams

• A-IV, AIV, AVI, Avi, IVA, Iva, Vai, avi, avi-, vai

Bavarian

Numeral

via

1. Alternative spelling of vier (“four”)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin via.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

via f (plural vies)

1. lane
2. way, path
3. railway track

   Synonym: via fèrria

4. channel

Derived terms

• autovia
• fer via
• ferrovia
• via aèria
• via ampla
• via d'aigua
• via doble
• via fluvial
• Via Làctia
• via morta
• via pública
• via terrestre

 

Related terms

• vianant
• viari

Preposition

via

1. via, by way of

Further reading

• “via” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “via”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “via” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “via” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin via.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːæ/, /ˈviæ/

Preposition

via

1. via; by way of; passing through.

   Familien kørte til Aalborg via Aarhus.

   The family drove to Aalborg via Aarhus.

2. via, by means of, using.

   Bestillingen kan betales via smartphone

   The order can be paid for via smartphone

Synonyms

• (passing through): over, gennem
• (by means of): ved hjælp af, gennem

References

• “via” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”), of uncertain origin, plausibly cognate with vehere (“to conduct”). Entered Dutch in the Latin phrase per via de (“by way of”), after the Portuguese por via de.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Preposition

via

1. via, through, by way of

   Synonym: langs

2. by (means of); using (a medium)

   Synonym: per

Derived terms

• via via (“using various intermediaries”)

Esperanto

Etymology

From vi +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvia]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: vi‧a

Determiner

via (accusative singular vian, plural viaj, accusative plural viajn)

1. (possessive) your, yours

See also

• cia
• ĝia
• ilia
• lia
• mia
• nia
• onia
• sia
• ŝia

 

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *via, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀaq (compare Malay birah), from Proto-Austronesian *biʀaq.

Noun

via

1. alocasia

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiɑ/, [ˈʋiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): via

Adverb

via

1. via

   Synonym: kautta

Further reading

• “via”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Anagrams

• AVI, avi, iva, vai

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vīta.

Noun

via f (plural vies) (ORB, broad)

1. life

References

• vie in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• via in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”), of uncertain origin, plausibly cognate with vehō (“convey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vja/

• Audio:

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Preposition

via

1. via, through, by way of

Further reading

• “via”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

via

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ver

German

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin viā, the ablative of via (“road, way”). Cognate with English via, Danish via, Dutch via, Norwegian Bokmål via.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Preposition

via [with accusative]

1. via, by way of

   Synonym: über

2. by way of, by means of

   Synonyms: durch, mittels, mithilfe von

Related terms

• Via

Further reading

• “via” in Duden online
• “via” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Etymology

From Latin via.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

• Audio:

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• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: vì‧a

Noun

via f (plural vie)

1. street, path

   Synonym: strada

2. way, route
3. means (to an end)
4. tract (in the body)

   per via orale ― orally (literally, “through oral tract”)

5. start (of a race)

Derived terms

• andare via
• ferrovia
• in via provvisoria
• sviare
• tramvia
• via libera
• via via
• viabile
• viale
• viavai
• vie aeree
• viottolo
• viuzza

 

Related terms

• viario

Adverb

via

1. away
2. out

Further reading

• via¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• via² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• -avi, -iva, IVA, Iva, avi, vai

Latin

Etymology

• From Proto-Italic *wijā, from Proto-Indo-European *wih₁eh₂-, from *weyh₁- (“to pursue, be strong”). Cognate with Lithuanian vyti (“to pursue”). See also vīs, invītus, invītō, Ancient Greek οἶμος (oîmos).
• Or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰyeh₂-, from *weǵʰ- (whence vehō and English way). This hypothesis is rejected by De Vaan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.a/, [ˈu̯iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/, [ˈviːä]

Noun

Via Romana lapidea Pompeiis, Italia.

via f (genitive viae); first declension

1. road, street, path

   Synonym: platea

2. highway

   Antonym: sēmita

3. way, method, manner, mode
4. the right way
5. (figuratively) journey, course, route

   Synonym: iter

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.30.19:

     viam aquilae in caelō viam colubrī super petram viam nāvis in mediō marī et viam virī in adulēscentulā

     The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	via	viae
genitive	viae	viārum
dative	viae	viīs
accusative	viam	viās
ablative	viā	viīs
vocative	via	viae

Synonyms

• (road): iter

Hyponyms

• via agrāria (“lane”)

Derived terms

• āvius
• bivius
• dēvius
• invius
• obviō
• obvius
• pervius
• praevius
• quadrivium
• trivium
• viālis
• viārius
• viāticus
• viō

 

Related terms

• bivium
• triviālis

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: vijë
• Catalan: via
• → Dutch: via
• → English: via
• Franco-Provençal: voué
• French: voie, via
• Galician: vía
• Istriot: veîa
• Italian: via
• Piedmontese: via
• Portuguese: via
• Romanian: via
• Romansch: via, veia
• Sicilian: via
• Spanish: vía
• → Swedish: via

Further reading

• “via”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “via”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• via in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• via in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the country-house stands near the road: villa tangit viam
    
  • the road is the same length: tantundem viae est
    
  • to pave a road: viam sternere (silice, saxo)
    
  • to make a gravel path: substruere viam glarea (Liv. 41. 27)
    
  • a street, a made road: via strata
    
  • a well-trodden, much-frequented way: via trita
    
  • to make a road: viam munire
    
  • to open a route: viam patefacere, aperire
    
  • to cut one's way (through the enemies' ranks): ferro viam facere (per confertos hostes)
    
  • to obstruct a road; to close a route: viam intercludere
    
  • a road leads somewhere: via fert, ducit aliquo
    
  • to set out on a journey: in viam se dare
    
  • to set out on a journey: viae se committere
    
  • to enter upon a route; to take a road: viam ingredi, inire (also metaphorically)
    
  • to turn aside from the right way; to deviate: de via declinare, deflectere (also metaphorically)
    
  • make way for any one: (de via) decedere alicui
    
  • to set out by the Appian road: Appia via proficisci
    
  • to direct a person who has lost his way: erranti viam monstrare
    
  • to continue one's journey, pursue one's course: viam persequi (also metaphorically)
    
  • to accomplish a long journey: longam viam conficere
    
  • weary with travelling; way-worn: fessus de via
    
  • in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum
    
  • to bring a person back to the right way: in viam reducere aliquem
    
  • to return to the right way: in viam redire
    
  • to enter upon a career: viam vitae ingredi (Flacc. 42. 105)
    
  • to give a scientific explanation of a thing: artificio et via tradere aliquid
    
  • to proceed, carry on a discussion logically: ratione et via, via et ratione progredi, disputare (Or. 33. 116)
    
  • to walk in the ways of virtue: viam virtutis ingredi (Off. 1. 32. 118)
    
  • to receive tenders for the construction of temples, highroads: locare aedes, vias faciendas (Phil. 9. 7. 16)
    
• “via”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin via.

Preposition

via

1. via

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• viet
• vigde, vidde (simple past)
• vigd, vidd (past participle)

Verb

via

1. inflection of vie:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

References

• “via” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin via.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiː.ɑ/

Preposition

via

1. via

Etymology 2

From earlier form vigja, from Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Alternative forms

• vie (e-infinitive)
• vigja (non-standard since 1938)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʋiː.ɑ/

Verb

via (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

1. (transitive) to dedicate, commit
2. (transitive) to consecrate, to hallow
3. (transitive) to wed

Derived terms

• ektevia
• innvia
• prestevia

Related terms

• ve
• vigsel, vigsle

References

• “via” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• avi, vai

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: vi‧a

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese via, from Latin via (“road”), which see for details.

Noun

via f (plural vias)

1. a way; a path

   Synonym: caminho

2. (rail transport) gauge (distance between the rails of a railway)

   Synonym: bitola

3. medium (means or channel by which an aim is achieved)

   Synonyms: meio, veículo

4. an example of a document

Derived terms

• por via de regra
• via de salvação
• via do paraíso
• via executiva
• via férrea
• via pública
• via purgativa
• via-sacra

 

Related terms

• Via Láctea
• viação
• viaduto
• viário
• viável
• viela

 

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin viā (“by way of”).

Preposition

via

1. via (by way of; passing through)
2. via (by means of; using a medium)

Noun

via f (plural vias)

1. (historical) via (road built by the ancient Romans)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

via

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ver

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French and Latin via.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

Preposition

via (+accusative)

1. via, by

Etymology 2

From an older form vie, from Latin vīvere, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (“to live, be alive”).

Alternative forms

• vie — regional, archaic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viˈa/

Verb

a via (third-person singular present viază, past participle viat) 1st conjugation

1. (rare) to have life; to live, exist
2. (of intangibles, such as emotions and beliefs) to endure

Conjugation

    conjugation of via (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a via
gerund			viind
past participle			viat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	viez	viezi	viază	viem	viați	viază
	imperfect	viam	viai	via	viam	viați	viau
	simple perfect	viai	viași	vie	viarăm	viarăți	viară
	pluperfect	viasem	viaseși	viase	viaserăm	viaserăți	viaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să viez	să viezi	să vieze	să viem	să viați	să vieze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		viază			viați
	negative		nu via			nu viați

Synonyms

• dăinui
• dura
• exista
• fi
• trăi
• viețui

Derived terms

• viere

Related terms

• învia
• viabil

Etymology 3

Form of the adjective viu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

Adjective

via

1. definite feminine singular nominative/accusative of viu (“live, alive”)

Etymology 4

Form of the noun vie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.a/

Noun

via

1. definite singular nominative/accusative of vie (“the vineyard”)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• veia (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin via.

Noun

via f (plural vias)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) road, street; way

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan: road, street) strada

Swedish

Preposition

via

1. via, over, by, through

Anagrams

• IVA, avi