via

Meanings

Interjection

• Away! Be off!

Noun

• A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
• A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin via ("road"), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. way.
• The sense in electronics is also explained as vertical interconnect access.
• Borrowed from Latin viā ("by the way (of)"), ablative singular of via, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.