Villa, læ, f. ge. Pli. A manont or house out of a citie or towne.Villa rostica. Var. That parte of the house wherein the Farmer dwelleth that keepeth the house, with all maner of things pertaining to husbandrie, as corne, cartes, yokes, ploughs, &c. A farme to occupie husbandrie in.Villa vrbana, quæ & Prætorium dicitur. Var. That parte of a mannour where the lord himselse did lie, and was in al things as trimly and well appointed or furnished as an house in a citie.Frumenta aut in agris, aut in villis sunt. Pollio Cic.Anser erat minimæ custodia villæ.Ouid.Culmina villarum fumant. Virgil. Aperta villa.Cic. Paroa. Cic.Minuscula.Cic. Plenissima. Hor. Optima.Cic. Suburbana. Catul.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
villa (rustic, vella, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 4), ae, f.dim. [most prob. for vicula, from vicus], a country-house, country-seat, farm, villa.I. In gen., Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 9; Col. 1, 6, 21; Cato, R. R. 4; Varr. R. R. 4, 4, 2; Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33; Poll. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 5; Hor. C. 2, 3, 18; 3, 22, 5; id. Epod. 1, 29.—II. In partic.: Villa Publica, in the Campus Martius, as the gathering-place, rendezvous for recruits, and of the people for the census, etc., Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 4; Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14; Liv. 4, 22, 7; 34, 44, 5; Flor. 3, 21, 24.—As the residence of foreign ambassadors, Liv. 30, 21, 12; 33, 24, 5.—B. = vicus, a village, App. M. 8, p. 209, 4.