volo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "volo"

Catalan

Verb

volo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin volō (“I wish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvolo/

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: vol‧o

Noun

volo (accusative singular volon, plural voloj, accusative plural volojn)

1. volition
2. what one desires or wishes, a gift of peace, one's wish

Related terms

• vola (“voluntary”, adjective)
• vole (“voluntarily”, adverb)
• voli (“to want, wish”, verb)

Italian

Etymology 1

From volare (“to fly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.lo/

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• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: vó‧lo

Noun

volo m (plural voli)

1. flight (of a bird; trip in a plane)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

volo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volare

Further reading

• volo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• volo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• volo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• vólo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• vólo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

FWOTD – 14 November 2012

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯o.loː/, [ˈu̯ɔɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.lo/, [ˈvɔːlo]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *welō, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”). Cognate with Sanskrit वृणीते (vṛṇīte, “to choose, prefer”), Old English willan (“to will, wish, desire”). More at will.

Alternative forms

• voleō (nonstandard)

Verb

volō (present infinitive velle, perfect active voluī, future active participle volitūrus); irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no imperative, no gerund

2. to wish, to please

   Tibi bene ex animō volō.

   I wish you well with all my heart.

   Hanc rem pūblicam salvam esse volumus.

   We wish this republic to be safe.

4. to want

   Synonyms: dēsīderō, cupiō

   Quid vīs?

   What do you want?

   Nunc, (ego) edere volō.

   Now, I want to eat.

   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 618:

     Dō tibi operam, Aristophontēs, sī quid est quod mē velīs.

     I’m at your service, Aristophontes, if there’s anything you want of me.

5. to mean, to intend
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis 29:25:

     Et dixit ad socerum, "Quid est quod facere voluisti?

     And he said to his father-in-law: "What is it that thou didst mean to do?"

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus 1:18:

     Quibus ad se accersitis rex ait: "Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis ut pueros servaretis?"

     And the king called for them, and said: "What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?"

6. to be willing, to consent
7. to be going to, to intend, to be about to, to be on the point of

Usage notes

Nōn velle is used in place of nōlle in the second person present indicative active forms and the third person singular present indicative active.

Conjugation

Its present infinitive, velle, descends from the athematic infinitive form Proto-Italic *wel-zi (*-zi being the source of the usual infinitive ending -re as well). The second person singular present form vīs is suppletive and belongs to the root Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to strive after, pursue”); the original form appears to be preserved as the conjunction vel (from Proto-Italic *wel-s).

   Conjugation of volō (irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no imperative, no gerund)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	volō		vīs		vult, volt1		volumus		vultis, voltis1		volunt
	imperfect	volēbam		volēbās		volēbat		volēbāmus		volēbātis		volēbant
	future	volam		volēs		volet		volēmus		volētis		volent
	perfect	voluī		voluistī		voluit		voluimus		voluistis		voluērunt, voluēre
	pluperfect	volueram		voluerās		voluerat		voluerāmus		voluerātis		voluerant
	future perfect	voluerō		volueris		voluerit		voluerimus		volueritis		voluerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	velim, volim1		velīs, volīs1		velit, volit1		velīmus, volīmus1		velītis, volītis1		velint, volint1
	imperfect	vellem		vellēs		vellet		vellēmus		vellētis		vellent
	perfect	voluerim		voluerīs		voluerit		voluerīmus		voluerītis		voluerint
	pluperfect	voluissem		voluissēs		voluisset		voluissēmus		voluissētis		voluissent
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		velle			—			volēns			—
future		volitūrum esse			—			volitūrus			—
perfect		voluisse			—			—			—
perfect potential		volitūrum fuisse			—			—			—

¹Old Latin.

Derived terms

• mālō
• nōlō
• quantusvīs
• vel
• velleitās
• volēns
• Volumnus
• voluntās

Descendants

Reflexes of the non-standard variant voleō (volēre):

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: voi, vreari
  • Istro-Romanian: voi
  • Megleno-Romanian: voi, vreari
  • Romanian: vrea, vrere
• Dalmatian:
  • vular
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: vulè
  • Italian: volere
    • → Esperanto: voli, volo
    • → Ido: volar
  • Neapolitan: volere
  • Sicilian: vòliri, vuliri (regional)
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: voéi
    • Lombard: vorè
    • Piedmontese: vorej
  • Friulian: volê
  • Istriot: vuoi
  • Ladin: volei, voler
  • Romansch: vulair, vuler, vuleir
  • Venetan: voler, vołer
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: voler
  • Franco-Provençal: volêr
  • Old French: voloir (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: voler
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: volre (Ribagorçan)
  • ⇒ Old Spanish: sivuelqual, sivuelque (“any”), sivuelquando (“whenever”)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bolere, volere, boliri, bolli

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *gʷelāō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₁-éh₂-ye-ti (“to throw, raise the arm”), from *gʷelH- (“to throw”).

Verb

volō (present infinitive volāre, perfect active volāvī, supine volātum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive

2. to fly

   Verba volant, scrīpta manent.

   Words fly, writings remain.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of volō (first conjugation, impersonal in the passive)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	volō		volās		volat		volāmus		volātis		volant
	imperfect	volābam		volābās		volābat		volābāmus		volābātis		volābant
	future	volābō		volābis		volābit		volābimus		volābitis		volābunt
	perfect	volāvī		volāvistī		volāvit		volāvimus		volāvistis		volāvērunt, volāvēre
	pluperfect	volāveram		volāverās		volāverat		volāverāmus		volāverātis		volāverant
	future perfect	volāverō		volāveris		volāverit		volāverimus		volāveritis		volāverint
passive	present	—		—		volātur		—		—		—
	imperfect	—		—		volābātur		—		—		—
	future	—		—		volābitur		—		—		—
	perfect	—		—		volātum est		—		—		—
	pluperfect	—		—		volātum erat		—		—		—
	future perfect	—		—		volātum erit		—		—		—
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	volem		volēs		volet		volēmus		volētis		volent
	imperfect	volārem		volārēs		volāret		volārēmus		volārētis		volārent
	perfect	volāverim		volāverīs		volāverit		volāverīmus		volāverītis		volāverint
	pluperfect	volāvissem		volāvissēs		volāvisset		volāvissēmus		volāvissētis		volāvissent
passive	present	—		—		volētur		—		—		—
	imperfect	—		—		volārētur		—		—		—
	perfect	—		—		volātum sit		—		—		—
	pluperfect	—		—		volātum esset		—		—		—
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		volā		—		—		volāte		—
	future	—		volātō		volātō		—		volātōte		volantō
passive	future	—		—		volātor		—		—		—
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		volāre			volārī			volāns			—
future		volātūrum esse			volātum īrī			volātūrus			volandum
perfect		volāvisse			volātum esse			—			volātum
future perfect		—			volātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		volātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		volandī		volandō		volandum		volandō		volātum		volātū

Derived terms

• advolō
• antevolō
• āvolō
• circumvolō
• convolō
• dēvolō
• ēvolō
• intervolō
• involō
• pervolō
• praetervolō
• praevolō
• prōvolō
• revolō
• subvolō
• supervolō
• trānsvolō
• volantēs
• volāticus
• volātilis
• volātus
• volitō
• volucer

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: volare
  • Neapolitan: volare
  • Sicilian: vulari
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: volare, volai
• North Italian:
  • Venetan: volar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: volar
  • French: voler
  • Walloon: voler
  • Occitan: volar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: voar
    • Galician: voar
    • Portuguese: voar
  • Spanish: volar
• Vulgar Latin:
  • ⇒ *exvolāre (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “volo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• volo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be favourably disposed towards: alicuius causa velle or cupere
    
  • convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic volo te tibi persuadere
    
  • he attained his object: id quod voluit consecutus est
    
  • he attained his object: ad id quod voluit pervenit
    
  • what is the meaning of this: quid hoc sibi vult?
    
  • to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • to wish to speak to some one: velle aliquem (Plaut. Capt. 5. 2. 24)
    
  • a word with you: paucis te volo
    
  • a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
    
  • (ambiguous) the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
    
  • (ambiguous) what do you mean to do: quid tibi vis?
    
  • (ambiguous) oratorical power: vis dicendi
    
  • (ambiguous) what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae est vis huius verbi?
    
  • (ambiguous) the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • (ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 687

Malagasy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvulʷ/

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bulu (compare Malay bulu), from Proto-Austronesian *bulu.

Noun

volo

1. (anatomy) hair (the collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buluq (compare Malay buluh), from Proto-Austronesian *buluq.

Noun

volo

1. bamboo (wood)