volubilis
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See also: Volubilis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From volvo (“I turn around, I roll”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯oˈluː.bi.lis/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪uːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈlu.bi.lis/, [voˈluːbilis]
Adjective
[edit]volūbilis (neuter volūbile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- that turns itself around, turning, spinning, whirling, rolling, revolving
- (figuratively, of speech) rapid, fluent, voluble
- (figuratively, of fate) changeable, mutable
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: voluble
- English: voluble, volubile
- French: volubile
- Romanian: volubil
- Galician: voluble
- Italian: volubile
- Portuguese: volúvel
- Spanish: voluble
References
[edit]- “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