Where does “voilà” come from?
voilà (French) comes from French là, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll, from Hungarian a, from French à — accusative masculine plural of -us.
voilà (French): There is; Here is; That is
Definitions
- There is; Here is; That is
Ancestry of “voilà”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | là | there; here, present |
| 2 | Italian | là | there |
| 3 | Spanish | la | feminine singular definite article; the |
| 4 | Portuguese | lá | there; used with an adverb phrase to indicate... |
| 5 | German | a | Alternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;... |
| 6 | German | a-Moll | A-minor |
| 7 | Hungarian | a | the; this; that |
| 8 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 9 | English | avie | emulously |
| 10 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 11 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 12 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 13 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 14 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |