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Volta

//ˈvoʊltə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in West Africa, having given its name to Upper Volta; in full, Volta River.
  2. 2
    A surname from Italian.
  3. 3
    Ellipsis of Lake Volta: a lake in West Africa. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  4. 4
    A census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
  2. 2
    A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
  3. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

Etymology 2

From Portuguese Volta, from volta (“turnaround, return”); at some point of time the river marked the point of return for the Portuguese traders.

Etymology 3

From Italian Volta.

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