voie

voie

See also: võie

French

Etymology

From Old French voie, veie, inherited from Latin via. Doublet of via. Unrelated to voir and voirie, despite influencing the latter[1].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vwa/, /vwɑ/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: voient, voies, vois, voit, voix (general), voua, vouas, vouât (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

voie f (plural voies)

1. way, track

   Synonym: (Switzerland) vie

2. lane (of a highway)
3. (figuratively) calling, path in life

   trouver sa voie ― to find one's calling

Derived terms

• avoyer
• dévoyer
• en voie de
• envoyer
• les voies de Dieu sont impénétrables
• ouvrir la voie
• par voie de conséquence
• sur la bonne voie
• trouver sa voie
• voie de circulation
• voie de communication
• voie de droit
• voie de fait
• voie de garage
• voie ferrée
• voie lactée
• Voie lactée
• voie métabolique
• voie rapide
• voie romaine
• voie royale
• voie sans issue
• voie verte

 

Related terms

• dévier
• vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

Verb

voie

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of voir

References

1. https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/voirie/82395

Further reading

• “voie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• veie (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin via.

Noun

voie f (oblique plural voies, nominative singular voie, nominative plural voies)

1. path; lane; route
2. trip; journey

Synonyms

• chemin
• curs
• route

Descendants

• Middle French: voie
  • French: voie

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic волꙗ (volja), from Proto-Slavic *voľà. Compare Serbo-Croatian volja, Bulgarian воля (volja). Has also influenced variants of the verb vrea, from Latin volere (compare vroi, voi) due to similarity of sound and meaning, especially after the weak r is removed. The existence of Italian voglia with a similar meaning is also most likely a coincidence, and a Latin etymology for voie (from a root *volia for volō on the basis of the disappearance of the intervocalic l in some other words like muiere, foaie, găină, pai), while technically possible, is quite improbable (the presence of the related word nevoie also makes this less plausible, and nonetheless, the result would probably have normally been *voaie, as with foaie, from folia); however, there are other cases where words can be of two originally different origins with similar meanings and sound and coincide to form one word after a while through confusion of the two.

However, both Latin and Slavic point to Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, making the Romance terms cognates.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

voie f (plural voi)

1. will
2. permission

   Nu aivoie să faci așa ceva.

   You don't have permission to do something like that.

Declension

Declension of voie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) voie	voia	(niște) voi	voile
genitive/dative	(unei) voi	voii	(unor) voi	voilor
vocative	—		—

Synonyms

• voință, vrere

Derived terms

• avea voie
• voios

Related terms

• nevoie