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Vinony

Volta

proper noun

  1. African river system
  2. family name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈvoʊltə/

name

Etymology: Etymology tree Italian Voltabor. English Volta Borrowed from Italian Volta.

  1. A surname from Italian, notably borne by Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta.

noun

Etymology: From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

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

    “[…][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.”