volumen

See also: Volumen and volúmen

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin volūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈlumen/
• Syllabification: vo‧lu‧men
• Rhymes: -umen

Noun

volumen m

1. volume

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

volumen

1. plural of volume

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *welūmən, from Proto-Indo-European *wéluHmn̥. Cognate to Ancient Greek εἴλυμα (eíluma, “wrapper”) and Old Armenian գելումն (gelumn, “twist”).

Synchronically analyzable as volvō (“roll, turn about”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix); hence literally "a thing that is rolled".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɔˈɫuː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈluː.men]

Noun

volūmen n (genitive volūminis); third declension

1. book, volume, roll, scroll
   • c. 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 1.2.2:

     Illud autem vidē nē ista lēctiō auctōrum multōrum et omnīs generīs volūminum habeat aliquid vagum et īnstabile.

     But see to it that this reading of many authors and all kinds of books does not have something aimless and unstable [in it].

2. revolution, turn
3. (poetic) fold, coil, roll, whirl, band
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.207–208:

     “[...] pars cētera pontum
     pōne legit, sinuatque immēnsa volūmine terga.”

     “[Describing the two sea serpents:] the other part [of their bodies] skims the sea behind [them], and bends in a coil [their] immense backs.” – Aeneas

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	volūmen	volūmina
genitive	volūminis	volūminum
dative	volūminī	volūminibus
accusative	volūmen	volūmina
ablative	volūmine	volūminibus
vocative	volūmen	volūmina

Derived terms

• volūminōsus

Related terms

• volvō
• volūcra

Descendants

• Asturian: valume, volume
• Albanian: vëllim
• Catalan: volum
• Danish: volumen
• Galician: volume
• Italian: volume
• → Old French: volume
  • French: volume
  • → English: volume
• Polish: wolumen
• Serbo-Croatian: volumen
• Sicilian: vulumi
• Spanish: volumen, volumbre
• Portuguese: volume

References

• “volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "volumen", 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)
• “volumen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to open a book: volumen explicare
    
• “volumen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

volúmen m inan (Cyrillic spelling волу́мен)

1. volume (measure of space)

Declension

Declension of volumen

	singular	plural
nominative	volumen	volumeni
genitive	volumena	volumena
dative	volumenu	volumenima
accusative	volumen	volumene
vocative	volumene	volumeni
locative	volumenu	volumenima
instrumental	volumenom	volumenima

Synonyms

• (Croatian) obújam
• (Bosnia, Serbia) zapremina

Spanish

Alternative forms

• volúmen (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin volūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈlumen/ [boˈlu.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -umen
• Syllabification: vo‧lu‧men

Noun

volumen m (plural volúmenes)

1. volume (a three-dimensional measure of space)
2. volume (a bound book)
3. volume (strength of sound)

Related terms

• voluminoso

Further reading

• “volumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025