villae
SayVIL-eeUS/ˈvɪli/UK/ˈvɪliː/
- 1Plural of villa.
Archaeologists have mapped dozens of villae in the hills north of Rome.
Mosaic floors lifted from the villae are now displayed in the city museum.
Note
The -ae ending is Latin, and it belongs with the Roman sense of the word: country houses with farm buildings set around a courtyard, the kind archaeologists map and excavate. For a coastal retreat, a semi-detached family house on a British street, or anything modern, the ordinary English plural villas is the form to use.
villae is a form of villa
villa, noun: A house in the countryside or on the coast, often larger and more expensive than average and often used as a retreat. Full entry
- Spelling
- villa → villae: irregular plural (no -s)
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