volubilis

See also: Volubilis

Latin

Etymology

From vol|vō, ~vere, ~vī, ~ūtum (“to turn around, to roll”) +‎ -bil|is, ~e.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɔˈɫuː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈluː.bi.lis]
• Hyphenation: vo‧lū‧bi‧lis

Adjective

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

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

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	volūbilis	volūbile		volūbilēs	volūbilia
genitive	volūbilis			volūbilium
dative	volūbilī			volūbilibus
accusative	volūbilem	volūbile		volūbilīs volūbilēs	volūbilia
ablative	volūbilī			volūbilibus
vocative	volūbilis	volūbile		volūbilēs	volūbilia

Derived terms

• volūbilitās
• volūbiliter

Descendants

• Catalan: voluble
• English: voluble, volubile
• French: volubile
  • Romanian: volubil
• Galician: voluble
• Italian: volubile
• Portuguese: volúvel
• Spanish: voluble

References

• “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, 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