via- [-vey, -voy-]

1. A device or structure for transporting people or things; a conveyance; such as, a space vehicle.
2. A self-propelled conveyance that runs on tires; such as, a motor vehicle.
3. A medium through which something is transmitted, expressed, or accomplished: "His written statements are a vehicle for his political views."
4. The concrete or specific word or phrase that is applied to the tenor of a metaphor and gives the metaphor its figurative power; such as, a walking shadow in “Life's but a walking shadow” by William Shakespeare.
5. A play, a role, or a piece of music used to display the special talents of one performer or company.
6. A substance of no therapeutic value used to convey an active medicine for administration.
7. A substance; such as, oil, in which paint pigments are mixed for applications.
8. Any inanimate object; such as, a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.; that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another.
9. Etymology: from about 1612, (in medical use) a medium through which a drug or medicine is administered; around 1615, any means of "conveying" or "transmitting"; borrowed from French vehicule, and directly from Latin vehiculum "means of transport", "a vehicle" came from vehere, "to carry".

via (s); viae (pl): Used to describe routes or Roman roads.

1. An elevated structure, consisting of a series of arches or spans, by means of which a railway or road is carried over a valley, road, river, or marshy low-lying ground.
2. Etymology: from Latin via, "way, road" + -duct "a leading, a conducting", past participle of ducere, "to lead".