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-ville
suffix sporadically in vogue since c. 1840 in U.S. colloquial word formation (such as
dullsville
,
palookaville
), abstracted from the
-ville
in place names (
Louisville
,
Greenville
, etc.), from Old French
ville
"town," from Latin
villa
(see
villa
).