villa: [17] Latin vīlla denoted a ‘country house’. It was a condensation of an earlier *wīcslā, which in turn was derived from *wīcus ‘group of houses, camp, village, etc’ (source of the -wick, -wich of English place-names). And *wīcus was descended from Indo-European *weik-, *wik-, *woik-, which also produced Greek oíkos ‘house’ (source of English economy).
To the same family belong village [14], a derivative of Old French ville in its extended sense ‘town’, and villain [14], which came via Old French vilain from Vulgar Latin *vīllānus, literally ‘dweller in a villa’, and originally denoted ‘feudal serf’ (now usually spelled villein, to distinguish it from the metaphorical ‘scoundrel, criminal’). => economy, village, villain
villa (n.)
1610s, "country mansion of the ancient Romans," from Italian villa "country house, villa, farm," from Latin villa "country house, farm," related to vicus "village, group of houses," from PIE *weik-sla-, suffixed form of root *weik- (1) "clan" (cognates: Sanskrit vesah "house," vit "dwelling, house, settlement;" Avestan vis "house, village, clan;" Old Persian vitham "house, royal house;" Greek oikos "house;" Old Church Slavonic visi "village;" Gothic weihs "village;" Lithuanian viešpats "master of the house"). Of modern structures from 1711.
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1. Villa had just been relegated from the First Division.
维拉队刚刚从甲级联赛中降级。
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2. Before her husband's death she had installed herself in a modern villa.
丈夫去世之前她已经在一所现代化别墅里安顿下来了。
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3. The discussion took place in a famous villa on the lake's shore.
商讨是在湖边一座著名的别墅内进行的。
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4. Aston Villa last led the League in March 1990.
阿斯顿维拉队上一次赢得联赛冠军是在1990年3月。
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5. He waited some 80 to 100 yards from the big pink villa.
