volubilis

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Latin

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Etymology

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From volvo (I turn around, I roll).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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volūbilis (neuter volūbile); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. that turns itself around, turning, spinning, whirling, rolling, revolving
  2. (figuratively, of speech) rapid, fluent, voluble
  3. (figuratively, of fate) changeable, mutable

Declension

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Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative volūbilis volūbile volūbilēs volūbilia
Genitive volūbilis volūbilium
Dative volūbilī volūbilibus
Accusative volūbilem volūbile volūbilēs
volūbilīs
volūbilia
Ablative volūbilī volūbilibus
Vocative volūbilis volūbile volūbilēs volūbilia

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • volubilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • volubilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • volubilis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • volubilis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press