Viola Definition

vē-ōlə
violas
noun
A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin and tuned a fifth lower.
Webster's New World
An organ stop usually of eight-foot or four-foot pitch yielding stringlike tones.
American Heritage
A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.
American Heritage
A feminine name: dim. Vi.
Webster's New World
A violet; esp., any of various violets developed from a pansy (Viola cornuta), grown as garden plants.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Viola
pronoun
A female given name.
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A town in Arkansas.

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A town in Delaware.

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A village in Illinois.

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A city in Kansas.

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Other Word Forms of Viola

Noun

Singular:
viola
Plural:
violas

Origin of Viola

  • Italian from Old Italian from Old Provençal a kind of early viol ultimately of imitative origin (probably back formation from violar to play the viol) (from viu sound imitative of a hurdy-gurdy or viol)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Italian from Old Italian from Old Provençal a kind of early viol ultimately of imitative origin (probably back formation from violar to play the viol) (from viu sound imitative of a hurdy-gurdy or viol)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian viola, from Old Provençal viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin *vitula (“stringed instrument").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin Greek ion (both Greek and Latin from a common unknown Mediterranean source)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Latin Greek ion (both Greek and Latin from a common unknown Mediterranean source)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin viola (“violet").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin viola (“violet")

    From Wiktionary

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