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English

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Etymology 1

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Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

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volt (plural volts)

  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V
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Etymology 2

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From French volte.

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volt (plural volts)

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  1. (archaic, equestrianism) A circular movement in which the horse goes round in a small circle.
  2. (archaic, fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust; a parry.

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volt (uncountable)

  1. A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
    volt:  

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *volŭtus, from Latin volūtus.

Noun

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volt m (plural volts)

  1. turn, round
    fer un voltto go for a stroll
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Etymology 2

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Named for Alessandro Volta.

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volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English volt.

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volt m inan

  1. volt

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Further reading

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  • volt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • volt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Etymology

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From English volt.

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volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

  1. volt (unit)

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Faroese

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Etymology

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Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

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volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

  1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

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n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative volt voltið volt voltini
accusative volt voltið volt voltini
dative volti voltinum voltum voltunum
genitive volts voltsins volta voltanna

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English volt.

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volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt

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Galician

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Etymology

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From English volt.

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volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt
    Synonym: voltio

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola, later vala (same meaning).

Verb

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volt

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van
    Milyen volt az előadás?How was the show?

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volt

  1. past participle of van

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volt (not comparable)

  1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime
    az egyetem volt tanárathe former professor of the university

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volt

  1. (archaic) Used after a past-tense verb form to express past perfect.
    • 1880 (translation), 411 BC (original), János Arany (translator), Aristophanes (original), A nők ünnepe (Thesmophoriazusae).[1] English translation: 2007, George Theodoridis.[2]
      A vén gaz asszony meg, ki hozta volt, ¶ Fut vigyorogva a férjhez s kiáltja:
      Then the old woman picks it up [literally, “who had brought it”] and rushes out to the husband! She puts on a big grin on her face and tells him straight out,

Etymology 2

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Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.[1]

Noun

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volt (plural voltok)

  1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)
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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative volt voltok
accusative voltot voltokat
dative voltnak voltoknak
instrumental volttal voltokkal
causal-final voltért voltokért
translative volttá voltokká
terminative voltig voltokig
essive-formal voltként voltokként
essive-modal
inessive voltban voltokban
superessive volton voltokon
adessive voltnál voltoknál
illative voltba voltokba
sublative voltra voltokra
allative volthoz voltokhoz
elative voltból voltokból
delative voltról voltokról
ablative volttól voltoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
volté voltoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
voltéi voltokéi
Possessive forms of volt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. voltom voltjaim
2nd person sing. voltod voltjaid
3rd person sing. voltja voltjai
1st person plural voltunk voltjaink
2nd person plural voltotok voltjaitok
3rd person plural voltjuk voltjaik
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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

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  • (the past form of van or an auxiliary particle expressing past perfect): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (former, previous, bygone): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (unit): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

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volt n (genitive singular volts, nominative plural volt)

  1. volt

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English volt, itself named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, from Volta.

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volt m (invariable)

  1. volt

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  1. ^ volt in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

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Verb

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volt

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of volō

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  • volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin vultus.

Noun

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volt oblique singularm (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

  1. face

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References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (volt)

Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin vultus.

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volt m

  1. figure
  2. face
  3. holy image

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  • Levy, Emil. 1923. Petit dictionnaire provençal-français. Heidelberg: Winter. Page 386.

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

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volt m inan (abbreviation V)

  1. Alternative spelling of wolt
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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volt f

  1. genitive plural of volta

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  • volt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Unadapted borrowing from English volt.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvow.t͡ʃi/ [ˈvoʊ̯.t͡ʃi], /ˈvowt͡ʃ/ [ˈvoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvowt͡ʃ/ [ˈvoʊ̯t͡ʃ], /ˈvow.t͡ʃi/ [ˈvoʊ̯.t͡ʃi]
 

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volt m (plural volts)

  1. volt (unit of measure)

Romanian

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Borrowed from French volt.

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volt m (plural volți)

  1. volt

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative volt voltul volți volții
genitive-dative volt voltului volți volților
vocative voltule volților

Serbo-Croatian

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Borrowed from English volt.

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volt m (Cyrillic spelling волт)

  1. volt

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Slovak

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Etymology

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Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

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volt m inan (related adjective voltový)

  1. (physics) volt

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Further reading

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  • volt”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Swedish

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Etymology

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From French volte, from Italian volta (a turn, rotation).

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volt c

  1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
    att göra/slå en volt
    to do a somersault
  2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.
    Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.
    The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

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volt c

  1. volt (unit)

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Tatar

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From English volt.

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volt

  1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.
    80 meñ volt80 thousand volts

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