voluntarily

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English voluntary

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English voluntarily

From voluntary + -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌvɑlənˈtɛɹɪli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌvɒlənˈtɛɹɪli/, /ˈvɒləntɹɪli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: vol‧un‧ta‧ri‧ly

Adverb

voluntarily (comparative more voluntarily, superlative most voluntarily)

1. In a voluntary manner.
   • 2024 September 6, Tracey Tully, “Facing Entrenched School Segregation, New Jersey Tries Something New”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But no state has voluntarily sought a statewide remedy to segregation in the 70 years since the Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed government sanctioned, racially separate schools.

Antonyms

• compulsorily
• involuntarily

Translations

in a voluntary manner

• Armenian: ինքնակամ (hy) (inkʻnakam)
• Catalan: voluntàriament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自願 / 自愿 (zh) (zìyuàn)

• Czech: dobrovolně (cs)
• Dutch: vrijwillig (nl)
• Esperanto: propravole, memvole, volonte (eo), vole (eo)
• Estonian: vabatahtlikult
• Finnish: vapaaehtoisesti (fi)
• French: volontairement (fr), bénévolement (fr)
• Galician: voluntariamente (gl)
• German: freiwillig (de)
• Greek: εθελοντικά (el) (ethelontiká), εκουσίως (el) (ekousíos)

  Ancient Greek: ἑκουσίως (hekousíōs)

• Hungarian: önként (hu), önkéntesen (hu), (deliberately) akaratlagosan
• Italian: volontariamente (it)
• Japanese: 自発的に (ja) (jihatsuteki ni), 自主的に (じしゅてきに, jishutekini)
• Occitan: volontàriament
• Polish: dobrowolnie (pl), ochotniczo (pl), niewymuszenie, nieprzymuszenie
• Portuguese: voluntariamente (pt)
• Romanian: voluntar (ro), voit (ro)
• Russian: доброво́льно (ru) (dobrovólʹno)
• Spanish: voluntariamente (es)
• Ukrainian: доброві́льно (dobrovílʹno)