Villa, læ, f. ge. Pli. A manont or house out of a citie or towne.Villa rostica. Var. That parte of the house wherein the Farmer dwelleth that keepeth the house, with all maner of things pertaining to husbandrie, as corne, cartes, yokes, ploughs, &c. A farme to occupie husbandrie in.Villa vrbana, quæ & Prætorium dicitur. Var. That parte of a mannour where the lord himselse did lie, and was in al things as trimly and well appointed or furnished as an house in a citie.Frumenta aut in agris, aut in villis sunt. Pollio Cic.Anser erat minimæ custodia villæ.Ouid.Culmina villarum fumant. Virgil. Aperta villa.Cic. Paroa. Cic.Minuscula.Cic. Plenissima. Hor. Optima.Cic. Suburbana. Catul.
Villum, villi, n. g. Diminut. Ter. A smal wine.
Villus, villi, m. g. Var. An haire: a big haire.Animantium aliæ cotijs tectæ sunt, aliæ villis vestitæ, aliæ spinis hirsutæ.Cic.Albentes villi.Ouid. Atri villi. Ouidi. Cani villi arborum, Vide CANVS.Mollibus v illis albi greges. Vir. White flothes of sheep hauing soft wooll.Nigris villis brachia cœperunt horrescere. Oui. His armes vegan to be rough with blacke haires.Niuei villi.Ouid.Faire whire wooll or haire.Solutis villis mantile.Ouid.Tonsis villis mantilia.Virg.Vdis villis mersatur aries.Virg.Conficere & contexere villos ouium.Cic.To worke wooll and make cloth of it.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
villa (rustic, vella, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4), ae, f.dim. [most prob. for vicula, from vicus], a country-house, country-seat, farm, villa.I. In gen., Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 9; Col. 1, 6, 21; Cato, R. R. 4; Varr. R. R. 4, 4, 2; Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 5; Hor. C. 2, 3, 18; 3, 22, 5; id. Epod. 1, 29.—II. In partic.: Villa Publica, in the Campus Martius, as the gathering-place, rendezvous for recruits, and of the people for the census, etc., Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 4; Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14; Liv. 4, 22, 7; 34, 44, 5; Flor. 3, 21, 24.—As the residence of foreign ambassadors, Liv. 30, 21, 12; 33, 24, 5.—B. = vicus, a village, App. M. 8, p. 209, 4.