Etymology

-ville

Today it means: Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city. Full definition →

French ville ← Middle French ville ← Old French ville
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyḱ-
  2. Proto-Italic*weikslā
  3. Latinvīlla
  4. Old Frenchville
  5. Middle Frenchville
  6. Frenchville
  7. English today-ville

Borrowed from French ville (“town, city”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchville all →

villeVille Platte

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.