Catalan–English dictionary

víbria

In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.

vibrissa

One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

vicari

An assistant rector or vicar.

vicariat

The benefice, duties, or office of a vicar.

Viccionari

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

vice-

Taking the place or rank of (another person); deputy.

Vicenç

(countable) A en given name.

Vicent

(countable) A en given name.

viceversa

(generally after or) The same but with the two items mentioned reversed.

vici

Bad or immoral behaviour.

víctima

(military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).

víctima expiatòria

Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.

victimització

An act that victimizes or exploits someone.

victimitzar

(transitive) To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice.

Víctor

A en given name.

victòria

(uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.

victoriós

Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc.

victoriosament

in a victorious manner; as part of a victory

vida

The duration of the life of someone or something.

vident

One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.

vidre

(usually, uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).

vidrier

One who glazes; a craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc.

vidu

(of a previously married person) Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.

vídua

A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.

Viena

A state of Austria, including the city, within the state of Lower Austria.

vienès

Of or relating to Vienna (the capital of Austria).

vienesa

An inhabitant or resident of Vienna.

Vietnam

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi.

vietnamita

Of or pertaining to Vietnam.

vigència

(uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

vigèsim

The ordinal form of the number twenty.

vigilància

Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.

vigilant

Attentive; awake; on guard.

vigilar

To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

vigília

The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

vigor

(uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

vigoritzar

(transitive) To give life or energy to.

vigorosament

With intense energy, force or vigor

víking

(historical) Scandinavian/Northern European seafarers, most familiarly raiders and pirates during the Viking age.

vil

(uncountable) Low moral standards.

vil·la

A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.

vila

(UK, historical) A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.

vilatà

A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.

vímet

A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.

vimetera

(countable, uncountable) Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.

vinagre

(uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.

vinagreta

A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.

vinca

Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.

vinclar

(transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.

vincle

An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.

vinent

Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.

vinil

(organic compound, uncountable) The univalent radical CH2=CH−, derived from ethylene.

vint

The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.

vintè

The ordinal form of the number twenty.

vintena

Twenty (20).

vinya

The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

vinyeta

(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.

viola

(games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until they reach the front of the line, whereupon they also bend over. The process is then repeated.

violació

The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.

violar

(transitive) To have sex with.

violentament

In a violent manner.

violeta

Of a violet colour.

violí

(string instrument) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.

violinista

A person who plays the violin.

violoncel

A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.

violoncel·lista

Someone who plays the cello.

Viquipèdia

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

vira

(shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.

virago

A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.

Virgili

Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.

virginal

(musical instruments) A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.

virginitat

The state or characteristic of being a virgin.

virgo

Someone with a Virgo star sign

viril

Having the characteristics of a man.

virilitat

The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly.

viró

A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]

virolat

Decorated or colored in blotches.

virrei

One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.

virreina

The wife of a viceroy. [from 19th c.]

virtualment

In essence or functionally, but not in fact, formally, or technically.

virtuós

Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style. [from 18th c.]

virtuosa

Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style. [from 18th c.]

virtuosisme

The technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso.

virulència

The state of being virulent.

virulent

(medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.

visat

A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

visatge

(anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.

víscera

The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.

visceromegàlia

The abnormal enlargement of abdominal organs.

viscós

Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid (that is, a high viscosity).

viscosa

A viscous orange-brown liquid obtained by chemical treatment of cellulose and used as the basis of manufacturing rayon and cellulose film.

viscositat

(uncountable) The state of being viscous.

visera

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

visibilitat

(countable) The degree to which things may be seen.

visible

Able to be seen.

visiblement

In a visible manner; openly.

visió

Vision or the faculty of sight.

visió general

A general description of some subject.

visionar

(computing, transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

visionari

Having vision or foresight.

visir

(history) A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.

visita

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

visitar

To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).

visó

(plural mink or minks) Any semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammal in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neogale vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola).

vista

Vision or the faculty of sight.

vistós

(idiomatic) Visually attractive.

visual

Related to or affecting the vision.

visualització

(Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.

visualitzar

(chiefly, medicine) To make (a hidden or unclear body part, process, or object) visible by optical methods (such as endoscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, or X-rays), or other techniques.

visualment

By means of sight.

vitalici

Extending for the entire duration of life.

vitalisme

The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.

vitamina

Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.

vitamínic

Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.

vitiligen

(dermatology) The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.

vitri

Of or resembling glass; glassy.

vitrina

A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

vitualles

(in the plural) Provisions.

vituperar

(transitive, chiefly, British) To criticise harshly.

viu

Having life; living; not dead.

viudo

(of a previously married person) Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.

viure

(transitive) To bear patiently. [from late 15th c.]

vivaç

Full of life; energetic, vivacious.

vivacitat

The quality or state of being vivacious.

vivenda

A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.

vivent

Having life; living; not dead.

viver

(agriculture, zoology) A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).

Vixnu

(Hinduism) One of the Trimurti (trinity) in Hindu mythology, and the most venerated god in Hinduism.

vocal

(phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.

vocalment

Using words.

vocatiu

(grammar) Used in address; appellative; said of the case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective by which a person or thing is addressed.

vociferació

The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.

vodevil

(historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.

vodka

A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.

vodú

Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.

vogada

The movement of an oar or paddle through water: either the cycle of movement as a whole, or the propelling phase (as opposed to the return); the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.

voivodat

(countable, uncountable) The jurisdiction of a voivode, comparable to a countship or a county.

voladís

(architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.

volador

That flies or can fly.

voladora

That flies or can fly.

volandera

A flat piece of material, often of metal and often an annulus, placed beneath a nut or at some joint, to distribute pressure, alleviate friction, provide directionally differentiated friction (e.g. making the nut turn counter-clockwise only with difficulty), or prevent leakage.

volant

(countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. [from early 16th c.]

volar

(transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

volateria

The meat from a domestic fowl.

volàtil

(physics) Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.

volatilitat

The state of being volatile.

volcà

A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.

volea

(sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.

vòlei

(countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.

voleibol

(countable) The inflated ball used in such a game.