volvo

See also: Volvo

Galician

Verb

volvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volver

Italian

Verb

volvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volvere

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wolwō, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, round”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐλύω (elúō, “to roll around”), εἰλύω (eilúō, “to enfold”), εἴλω (eílō, “to roll up, pack close”), ἑλίσσω (helíssō, “to turn round, to roll”), ἕλιξ (hélix), Albanian valle (“circle dance”), Old Armenian գելում (gelum), Old English wielwan, wealwian (“to roll”). Compare Latin vulgus. More at wallow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɔɫ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔl.vo]

Verb

volvō (present infinitive volvere, perfect active volvī, supine volūtum); third conjugation

1. to roll, tumble
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.670–671:

     [...] flammaeque furentēs / culmina perque hominum volvantur perque deōrum.

     [...] and the flames are raging, rolling again and again through the roofs of men and gods.
     (In other words, razing homes and temples.)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of volvō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	volvō		volvis		volvit		volvimus		volvitis		volvunt
	imperfect	volvēbam		volvēbās		volvēbat		volvēbāmus		volvēbātis		volvēbant
	future	volvam		volvēs		volvet		volvēmus		volvētis		volvent
	perfect	volvī		volvistī		volvit		volvimus		volvistis		volvērunt, volvēre
	pluperfect	volveram		volverās		volverat		volverāmus		volverātis		volverant
	future perfect	volverō		volveris		volverit		volverimus		volveritis		volverint
passive	present	volvor		volveris, volvere		volvitur		volvimur		volviminī		volvuntur
	imperfect	volvēbar		volvēbāris, volvēbāre		volvēbātur		volvēbāmur		volvēbāminī		volvēbantur
	future	volvar		volvēris, volvēre		volvētur		volvēmur		volvēminī		volventur
	perfect	volūtus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	volūtus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	volūtus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	volvam		volvās		volvat		volvāmus		volvātis		volvant
	imperfect	volverem		volverēs		volveret		volverēmus		volverētis		volverent
	perfect	volverim		volverīs		volverit		volverīmus		volverītis		volverint
	pluperfect	volvissem		volvissēs		volvisset		volvissēmus		volvissētis		volvissent
passive	present	volvar		volvāris, volvāre		volvātur		volvāmur		volvāminī		volvantur
	imperfect	volverer		volverēris, volverēre		volverētur		volverēmur		volverēminī		volverentur
	perfect	volūtus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	volūtus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		volve		—		—		volvite		—
	future	—		volvitō		volvitō		—		volvitōte		volvuntō
passive	present	—		volvere		—		—		volviminī		—
	future	—		volvitor		volvitor		—		—		volvuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		volvere			volvī, volvier1			volvēns			—
future		volūtūrum esse			volūtum īrī			volūtūrus			volvendus
perfect		volvisse			volūtum esse			—			volūtus
future perfect		—			volūtum fore			—			—
perfect potential		volūtūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		volvendī		volvendō		volvendum		volvendō		volūtum		volūtū

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms

• advolvō
• circumvolvō
• convolvō
• dēvolvō
• ēvolvō
• involvō
• obvolvō
• prōvolvō
• revolvō
• subvolvō
• volūbilis
• volūcra
• volūmen
• Volūtīna
• volūtō
• volūtus

Descendants

• Aromanian: volbu
• Catalan: vogir
  • → Spanish: bojear, bojar
• Old French: voldre, voudre
  • French: voudre, vouder (dialectal, Normandy)
• Galician: volver
• Italian: volgere, volvere
• Old Catalan: voldre
• Portuguese: volver
• Romanian: holba
• Spanish: volver
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *volvicō
  • Catalan: bolcar
  • ⇒ Galician: envorcar
  • Romanian: bulbuca
  • Sicilian: vurbicari
  • Spanish: volcar
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *volutulō
  • Old French:
    • French: vautrer
• → Swedish: Volvo

Further reading

• “volvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “volvo”, 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: librum evolvere, volvere
    

Portuguese

Verb

volvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of volver