voluntarius

Latin

Etymology

voluntas (“will”) +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯o.lunˈtaː.ri.us/, [u̯ɔɫ̪ʊn̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vo.lunˈta.ri.us/, [volun̪ˈt̪äːrius]

Noun

voluntārius m (genitive voluntāriī or voluntārī); second declension

1. volunteer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	voluntārius	voluntāriī
Genitive	voluntāriī voluntārī1	voluntāriōrum
Dative	voluntāriō	voluntāriīs
Accusative	voluntārium	voluntāriōs
Ablative	voluntāriō	voluntāriīs
Vocative	voluntārie	voluntāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Adjective

voluntārius (feminine voluntāria, neuter voluntārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. voluntary, willing

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	voluntārius	voluntāria	voluntārium		voluntāriī	voluntāriae	voluntāria
Genitive	voluntāriī	voluntāriae	voluntāriī		voluntāriōrum	voluntāriārum	voluntāriōrum
Dative	voluntāriō		voluntāriō		voluntāriīs
Accusative	voluntārium	voluntāriam	voluntārium		voluntāriōs	voluntāriās	voluntāria
Ablative	voluntāriō	voluntāriā	voluntāriō		voluntāriīs
Vocative	voluntārie	voluntāria	voluntārium		voluntāriī	voluntāriae	voluntāria

Descendants

• Catalan: voluntari
• French: volontaire, volontiers
• Galician: voluntario
• Italian: volontario
• Occitan: volontari
• Portuguese: voluntário
• Spanish: voluntario

References

• “voluntarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “voluntarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• voluntarius 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)
• voluntarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
    
  • the volunteers: evocati, voluntarii (B. G. 5. 56)