volta

See also: Volta, voltà, and voltą

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

volta (dance)

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

Noun

volta (plural voltas)

1. (music) A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
2. (music, dance) A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.

   Synonyms: levalto, volte

3. (poetry) A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
   • 2025 May 31, Tanjil Rashid, quoting Lamorna Ash, “Finding their religion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

     […] [Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^[sic] in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.

Further reading

• Volta (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lovat, votal

Catalan

Etymology 1

From the verb voltar (“to turn, spin around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɔl.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvɔl.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvɔl.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

volta f (plural voltes)

1. turn, spin
2. (architecture) vault (an arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling)
3. lap (of a track)
4. time (instance)

   Synonyms: cop, vegada

5. (cycling) tour (bicycle race)

Derived terms

• clau de volta
• donar la volta
• donar volta
• donar voltes
• fer la volta
• sotavolta
• tal volta

Related terms

• voltar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

volta

1. inflection of voltar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “volta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “volta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “volta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “volta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Latin volvo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolta]

Noun

volta f

1. lavolta (dance)

Declension

Declension of volta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	volta	volty
genitive	volty	volt
dative	voltě	voltám
accusative	voltu	volty
vocative	volto	volty
locative	voltě	voltách
instrumental	voltou	voltami

See also

• voluta

Further reading

• “volta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “volta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese volta (“revolt”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) from voltar (“to turn around”), from Vulgar Latin *vol(vi)tāre, derived from Latin volvere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔlta/

Noun

volta f (plural voltas)

1. turnaround
2. overturn
3. turn, bend

   Esa estrada ten moitas voltas. ― That road has many bends.

4. return

   Synonym: retorno

5. somersault

   Synonyms: pirueta, pinchacarneiro, pinchagato, reviravolta

6. change (money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item)

   Paguei dez euros e deume cinco de volta. ― I paid ten euros and he hand me five in change

7. backside

   Na volta hai un debuxo. ― On the backside there is a sketch.

8. detour
9. walk, stroll

   Synonym: paseo

   • 1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu querido pai:

     Ali dei tres voltas
     como de recreo
     Axiña ò deixei
     Voltei para ò eido,

     I went there for three strolls,
     as if recreating.
     Soon I left it,
     went back to my home

10. turn of events
11. (archaic) disturbance, riot, revolt

    Synonym: revolta

    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 561:

      Et começou o torneo a creçer tãto, et a seer o acapelamento tã grande, et a uolta et os braados et os alaridos et os sõos dos cornos et das tronpas tã grandes et tã esquiuos que ome nõ se podía oýr

      And the tournament began to grow so much, and the carnage was so large, and the din and the shouts and the yells and the sound of the horns and of the trumpets so big and harsh that a man couldn't heard himself

Derived terms

• dar unha volta
• dar voltas
• reviravolta

Related terms

• revolta
• voltar

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “volta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “volta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “bolta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “volta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “volta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “volta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

volta

1. inflection of voltar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

From the original vol- stem of van (“to be”) +‎ -ta (noun-forming suffix), the latter from -t (noun-forming suffix) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvoltɒ]
• Hyphenation: vol‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

volta

1. being, character, condition, rank, nature, or quality of someone or something

   Synonyms: jelleg (“character, nature, feature”), -ság/-ség (“-ness”)

   • 1915, Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Hungarian translation: Miklós Györffy; English translation: Ian Johnston)

     Húga persze igyekezett leplezni az egésznek a kínos voltát, és ahogy telt az idő, ez egyre jobban sikerült is neki (…)

     The sister admittedly sought to cover up the awkwardness of everything as much as possible, and, as time went by, she naturally got more successful at it. (literally, “…cover up the whole [thing] being awkward…” or “the awkward nature of the whole [thing]…”)

     Samsa úr, bizalmatlanságában, amelynek alaptalan volta nyilvánvalóvá vált, a két nővel együtt kilépett az előtérre (…)

     In what turned out to be an entirely groundless mistrust, Mr. Samsa stepped with the two women out onto the landing (…) (literally, “Mr. Samsa in his mistrust, whose being groundless became evident,…”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	volta	—
accusative	voltát	—
dative	voltának	—
instrumental	voltával	—
causal-final	voltáért	—
translative	voltává	—
terminative	voltáig	—
essive-formal	voltaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	voltában	—
superessive	voltán	—
adessive	voltánál	—
illative	voltába	—
sublative	voltára	—
allative	voltához	—
elative	voltából	—
delative	voltáról	—
ablative	voltától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	voltáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	voltáéi	—

Possessive forms of volta

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	voltom	—
2nd person sing.	voltod	—
3rd person sing.	volta	—
1st person plural	voltunk	—
2nd person plural	voltotok	—
3rd person plural	voltuk	—

Derived terms

• jóvoltából
• mivolta
• voltaképp
• voltaképpen
• voltaképpeni

Further reading

• volta in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Irish

Irish Wikipedia has an article on:

volta

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Etymology

Borrowed from English volt.

Noun

volta m (genitive singular volta, nominative plural voltanna)

1. (electricity) volt

Declension

Declension of volta (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative volta voltanna vocative a volta a voltanna genitive volta voltanna dative volta voltanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an volta na voltanna genitive an volta na voltanna dative leis an volta don volta leis na voltanna

Derived terms

• fótavoltach
• voltach
• voltaiméadar
• voltaimpéar
• voltas
• voltmhéadar

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “volta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “volta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “volta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025