viola

Meaning

Noun

• A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
• An organ stop having a similar tone.
• A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.
• A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.
• Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.

Origin

• Image:Brazilian 10 String Viola.jpg|thumb|upright|A viola is a stringed instrument of the guitar family
• From Italian viola, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula. viol.
• Image:Viola mandshurica 2.jpg|thumb|Viola mandsurica ([[species), one of the flowering plants of the genus Viola]]
• From Latin viola.