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volta¹

  • /ˈvoʊltə/ US

Sounds like Volta

Where it comes from

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

noun voltas

  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.

    Similar: levalto, volte

  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.

Volta²

  • /ˈvoʊltə/ US

Sounds like volta

Where it comes from

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

proper noun

  1. with the A river in West Africa; in full, Volta River.
  2. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Lake Volta: a lake in West Africa.
  3. A census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States.

Volta³

  • /ˈvoʊltə/ US

Sounds like volta

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian Volta.

proper noun Voltas

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

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: haute, time, electrometer, congo, faso, turnaround, about-turn, turn, notturno, octavation, trope, throw, rotation time, torculus, tempo, three-point turn

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@misc{volta_2026,
  title = {volta},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/volta},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}