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 vie?pats "master of the house"). Of modern structures from 1711.
例文
1. Villa had just been relegated from the First Division.
ヴィラチームは1部リーグから降格したばかりだ。
2.Before her husband 's death she had installed herself in a modern villa .
夫が亡くなる前に彼女は近代的な別荘に落ち着いていた。
3.The discussion took place in a famous villa on the lake 's shore.
話し合いは湖畔の有名な別荘で行われた。
4.Aston Villa last led the League in March 1990.
アストンヴィラが前回リーグ優勝したのは1990年3月だった。
5.He waited some 80 to 100 yards from the big pink villa .