viola (a bowed instrument larger than a violin) · viol (a bowed instrument of the violin family held between the legs) · viola; viola caipira (10-string acoustic guitar used in Brazilian folk music)
çekim: çoğul violas
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula.
aile: adeus viola, cação-viola, enfiar a viola no saco, meter a viola no saco, raia-viola, viola bastarda, viola braguesa, viola caipira, viola de amor, viola de arame
the Roman goddess of joy and victory. See (Vitulatio) · a young cow, a female calf, a heifer · a stringed musical instrument, probably the viola
çekim: çoğul vitulae · tamlayan vitulae
köken: Feminine counterpart of vitulus (“a [male] calf”). Whether the word for a string instrument is from this source is quite uncertain, but may be related to strings being made from the intestines of cattle; may also be a borrowing from Frankish *fiþulā (“violin, fiddle”).
Etymology tree Latin altumlbor. Polish alt Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Polish -owy Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish -ówka Polish altówka From alt + -ówka. First attested in 1784.