volumen

See also: Volumen and volúmen

Latin

Etymology

For *volvimen, *volvumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix); hence literally "a thing that is rolled".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯oˈluː.men/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪uːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /voˈlu.men/, [voˈluːmen]

Noun

volūmen n (genitive volūminis); third declension

1. book, volume, roll, scroll
2. revolution, turn
3. (poetic) fold, coil, whirl

Declension

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

Case	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
• English: volume
• French: volume

• Galician: volume
• Italian: volume
• Polish: wolumen
• Serbo-Croatian: volumen
• Spanish: volumen

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’s 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

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

volúmen m (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
• (Bosnian, Serbian): zapremina

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• volúmen (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin volūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈlumen/ [boˈlu.mẽn]

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014