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Viva vs Vila - What's the difference?

viva | vila |

As nouns the difference between viva and vila

is that viva is an oral examination, typically for an academic qualification while vila is a type of fairy or nymph in Slavic mythology.

As an interjection viva

is long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).

As a verb viva

is to cheer, applaud.

viva

English

Etymology 1

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Interjection

  • Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support ).

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheer, applaud
  • * 1841 , Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas
  • * 1859 , The Atlantic Monthly
  • * 1857 , George Payne R James, Leonora d'Orco

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from (m), (etyl) for “live voice”

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To subject to an examination of this kind.
  • * 1931 , Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years
  • * 1972 , The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
  • * 2009 , Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms
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    vila

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (mythology) A type of fairy or nymph in Slavic mythology.
  • * 1874 , Elodie Lawton Mijatovic, Serbian Folklore :
  • *:"The Vilas (fairies ) live there, and they will certainly put out your eyes as they have put out mine, if you venture on their mountain."
  • * 1998 , Mike Dixon-Kennedy, Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend , page 302:
    • Duly married, the couple lived for some time in peace and contentment, until one day Marko boasted that his wife was a vila , whereupon she put on her wings and flew away.
  • * 1995 , Albert Bates Lord, The Singer Resumes the Tale , page 52:
    • She is answered, fittingly enough, by a vila , who declares that she is more beautiful than the girl.

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