volt

See also: Volt

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /vɒlt/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəʊlt/
- Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒlt, -əʊlt
Homophone: vault

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

Derived terms

gigavolt
kilovolt
megavolt
microvolt
millivolt
nanovolt
picovolt
voltage
voltmeter

Translations

unit of measure

Albanian: volt (sq) m
Arabic: فُولْت‎ m (fult)
Armenian: վոլտ (hy) (volt)
Asturian: voltiu
Azerbaijani: volt
Basque: volt
Belarusian: вольт m (volʹt)
Bengali: ভোল্ট (bholṭô)
Bulgarian: волт (bg) m (volt)
Burmese: ဗို့ (bui.)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 伏特 (zh) (fútè), 伏 (zh) (fú)
Min Nan: ^{(please verify)} bó͘-lú-to͘h
Czech: volt (cs) m
Danish: volt c
Dutch: volt (nl)
Esperanto: volto (eo)
Estonian: volt (et)
Faroese: volt n
Finnish: voltti (fi)
French: volt (fr) m
Galician: volt (gl) m, voltio m
Georgian: ვოლტი (volṭi)
German: Volt (de) n
Greek: βολτ (el) n (volt)
Hebrew: וולט‎ (he) (volt)
Hindi: वोल्ट (volṭ)
Hungarian: volt (hu)
Icelandic: volt
Indonesian: volt (id)
Interlingua: volt
Irish: volta
Italian: volt (it) m
Japanese: ボルト (ja) (boruto)
Kazakh: вольт (volt)
Khmer: វ៉ុល (km) (vol)
Korean: 볼트 (bolteu)
Kyrgyz: вольт (ky) (volʹt)
Lao: ໂວລ (wōn)
Latvian: volts m
Lithuanian: voltas m
Macedonian: волт m (volt)
Malay: volt
Maori: wae ngaohiko
Mongolian: вольт (mn) (volʹt)
Persian: ولت‎ (fa) (volt)
Polish: wolt (pl) m
Portuguese: volt (pt) m
Romanian: volt (ro)
Russian: вольт (ru) m (volʹt)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: волт m
Roman: volt (sh) m
Slovak: volt m
Spanish: voltio (es) m
Swedish: volt (sv) c
Tagalog: bolta, boltiyo
Tajik: волт (volt)
Tamil: வோல்ட்டு (vōlṭṭu)
Tatar: вольт (wol’t)
Telugu: వోల్టు (vōlṭu)
Thai: โวลต์ (th) (wóon)
Tibetan: ཝོལ (wol)
Turkish: volt (tr)
Turkmen: wolt
Ukrainian: вольт m (volʹt)
Urdu: وولٹ‎ (volṭ)
Uyghur: ۋولت‎ (wolt)
Uzbek: volt (uz)
Vietnamese: vôn (vi)

Etymology 2

French volte

Noun

volt (plural volts)

A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.
(fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for volt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Noun

volt (uncountable)

A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.
volt:

Anagrams

LVOT, VTOL

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlt/

(Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔl/
Homophones: bol, vol

Etymology 1

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *volŭtus, from Latin volūtus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

turn, round
fer un volt ― to go for a stroll

Related terms

volta
voltar

Etymology 2

Named for Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

volt

Czech

Etymology

From English volt.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈvolt]
Rhymes: -olt

Noun

volt m

volt

Related terms

See voluta

Dutch

Etymology

From English volt.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

volt (unit)

Derived terms

elektronvolt

Faroese

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔl̥t/
Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Declension of volt
n3	singular		plural
n3	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	volt	voltið	volt	voltini
accusative	volt	voltið	volt	voltini
dative	volti	voltinum	voltum	voltunum
genitive	volts	voltsins	volta	voltanna

French

Etymology

From English volt.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔlt/
Audio (Paris) (file)

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

volt

Galician

Etymology

From English volt.

Noun

volt m (plural [please provide])

volt

Synonyms

voltio

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈvolt]
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: volt
Rhymes: -olt

Etymology 1

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola, later vala (same meaning).

Verb

volt

third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van
Milyen volt az előadás? ― How was the show?

Participle

volt

past participle of van

Adjective

volt (not comparable)

ex-, former, late, past, sometime
az egyetem volt tanára ― the former professor of the university

Particle

volt

(archaic) Used after a past-tense verb form to express past perfect.
- 1880 (translation), 411 BC (original), János Arany (translator), Aristophanes (original), A nők ünnepe (Thesmophoriazusae). English translation: 2007, George Theodoridis.
  A vén gaz asszony meg, ki hozta volt, ¶ Fut vigyorogva a férjhez s kiáltja:
  Then the old woman picks it up [literally, “who had brought it”] and rushes out to the husband! She puts on a big grin on her face and tells him straight out,

Etymology 2

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.[1]

Noun

volt (plural voltok)

volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	volt	voltok
accusative	voltot	voltokat
dative	voltnak	voltoknak
instrumental	volttal	voltokkal
causal-final	voltért	voltokért
translative	volttá	voltokká
terminative	voltig	voltokig
essive-formal	voltként	voltokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	voltban	voltokban
superessive	volton	voltokon
adessive	voltnál	voltoknál
illative	voltba	voltokba
sublative	voltra	voltokra
allative	volthoz	voltokhoz
elative	voltból	voltokból
delative	voltról	voltokról
ablative	volttól	voltoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	volté	voltoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	voltéi	voltokéi

Possessive forms of volt
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	voltom	voltjaim
2nd person sing.	voltod	voltjaid
3rd person sing.	voltja	voltjai
1st person plural	voltunk	voltjaink
2nd person plural	voltotok	voltjaitok
3rd person plural	voltjuk	voltjaik

Derived terms

voltos

Compound words

voltmérő

References

Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, nominative plural volt)

volt

Declension

declension of volt

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	volt	voltið	volt	voltin
accusative	volt	voltið	volt	voltin
dative	volti	voltinu	voltum	voltunum
genitive	volts	voltsins	volta	voltanna

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English volt, itself named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, from Volta.

Noun

volt m (invariable)

volt

Latin

Verb

volt

third-person singular present active indicative of volō

References

“volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“volt”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

face

Synonyms

face, visage

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (volt)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

vout

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m

figure
face
holy image

References

Levy, Emil. 1923. Petit dictionnaire provençal-français. Heidelberg: Winter. Page 386.

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔlt/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɔlt
Syllabification: volt

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m inan (symbol V)

Alternative spelling of wolt

Declension

Declension of volt

	singular	plural
nominative	volt	volty
genitive	volta	voltów
dative	voltowi	voltom
accusative	volt	volty
instrumental	voltem	voltami
locative	volcie	voltach
vocative	volcie	volty

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

volt f

genitive plural of volta

Portuguese

Alternative forms

vóltio (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English volt.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvow.t͡ʃi/ [ˈvoʊ̯.t͡ʃi], /ˈvowt͡ʃ/ [ˈvoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvowt͡ʃ/ [ˈvoʊ̯t͡ʃ], /ˈvow.t͡ʃi/ [ˈvoʊ̯.t͡ʃi]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlt/ [ˈvɔɫt]

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

volt (unit of measure)

Romanian

Etymology

From French volt.

Noun

volt m (plural volți)

volt

Declension

Declension of volt

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) volt	voltul	(niște) volți	volții
genitive/dative	(unui) volt	voltului	(unor) volți	volților
vocative	voltule		volților

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English volt.

Noun

volt m (Cyrillic spelling волт)

volt

Declension

Declension of volt

	singular	plural
nominative	volt	volti
genitive	volta	volta
dative	voltu	voltima
accusative	volt	volte
vocative	volte	volti
locative	voltu	voltima
instrumental	voltom	voltima

Slovak

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɫt/

Noun

volt m (genitive singular voltu, nominative plural volty, genitive plural voltov, declension pattern of dub)

volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Declension of volt

	singular	plural
nominative	volt	volty
genitive	voltu	voltov
dative	voltu	voltom
accusative	volt	volty
locative	volte	voltoch
instrumental	voltom	voltmi

Derived terms

voltový
voltáž

Swedish

Etymology

From French volte, from Italian volta (“a turn, rotation”).

Noun

volt c

a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
(by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.
Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.
The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

Declension

Declension of volt
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	volt	volten	volter	volterna
Genitive	volts	voltens	volters	volternas

Related terms

volta

Anagrams

tolv

Tatar

Etymology

From English volt.

Noun

volt

volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

80 meñ volt ― 80 thousand volts

Declension

declension of volt

Nominative	volt
Genitive	voltnıñ
Dative	voltqa
Accusative	voltnı
Locative	voltta
Ablative	volttan

[1] Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

volt

English

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Etymology 1

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Etymology 2

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

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Czech

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Noun

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Dutch

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Noun

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Faroese

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Noun

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French

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Galician

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Noun

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Etymology 2

Noun

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Icelandic

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Italian

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Latin

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Old French

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Old Occitan

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Polish

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