Volusius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯oˈlu.si.us/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪ʊs̠iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /voˈlu.si.us/, [voˈluːs̬ius]

Proper noun

Volusius m (genitive Volusiī or Volusī); second declension

1. The name of a Roman gens, (famously held by Volusius Venustus, a Roman aristocrat)
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, 36 lines 1–2; 18–20:

     Annālēs Volusī, cacāta carta,
     vōtum solvite prō meā puellā.
     [...]
     At vōs intereā venīte in ignem,
     plēnī rūris et īnfacētiārum
     annālēs Volusī, cacāta carta.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Volusius	Volusiī
genitive	Volusiī Volusī1	Volusiōrum
dative	Volusiō	Volusiīs
accusative	Volusium	Volusiōs
ablative	Volusiō	Volusiīs
vocative	Volusī	Volusiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Volusia

References

• “Volusius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Volusius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.