-ville

Borrowed from French ville (“town, city”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪl/

-ville

1. Used to form a name of an inhabited place, a town or city.
2. (figurative) Used with an adjective as a mildly intensifying locative, indicating a region or state of that kind.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 18:

     What do you reckon? Far outsville or far insville?

• Used for many towns in the English- and French-speaking world.
• Also often used to construct fictional and exemplar placenames, such as Nowheresville and Smallville.

• I'll've, evill

From Old French -ville, from Latin vīlla.

• IPA^(key): /vil/

-ville

1. -ville