Daily Ancestorvilla
Villa in Latin records means a country house, farm or estate, and in medieval Latin also a town or village.
Classical villa means a country house, estate or farm. In medieval Latin the word also came to mean a town; Wiktionary even gives city, and the BYU glossary gives town.
The BYU list of common phrases shows the town sense with Villa Monte Gomeri, the town of Montgomery. Read the rest of the entry: in villa with a place name usually gives where the family lived, not a manor house.
As seen in a recordLatin marriage register, Bavaria, 1700s
Copulati sunt in villa Altdorf Thomas Pruckmayr et Rosina
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Daily Ancestor. "villa." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/villa. Last checked 2026-10-12.