Ville is the contemporary
French word of Latin origin now meaning "city" or "town",
but the first meaning in the middle-ages was "farm" and then
"village". The derivative suffix -ville is usually used in English in
names of cities, towns and villages.
Derived words
- Hooverville — a region where homeless people usually lived during the Great Depression
- Village — another loanword from French employed for a settlement that was larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town
- villain — feudal serf, peasant cultivator in subjection to a lord
- villein — the same word used by contemporary historians
