volge

English

Etymology

From Latin vulgus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voʊlɡ/

Noun

volge pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) The common people; the crowd, the mob.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Prince Edwards Performance in Palestine: He is Dangerously Wounded; yet Recovereth, and Returneth Home Safe”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 219:

     [Y]ea, he would profer to fight with any mean perſon, if cried up by the volge for a tall man: this daring being a generall fault in great ſpirits, and a great fault in a Generall, who ſtaketh a pearl againſt a piece of glaſſe.

See also

• voulge

Further reading

• “volge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Vogel, glove, vogle

Dutch

Verb

volge

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of volgen

Anagrams

• golve, vloge, vogel

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔl.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -ɔldʒe
• Hyphenation: vòl‧ge

Verb

volge

1. third-person singular present indicative of volgere

Latin

Noun

volge

1. vocative singular of volgus

References

• volge 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)

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German folga.

Noun

volge f

1. entourage, retinue (group of attendants)
   1. band, armed retinue, party, company (group of followers under arms)
2. assent, agreement
   1. obedience

Descendants

• German: Folge
• → Old Polish: folga
  • Polish: folga

Further reading

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “volge”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
• “volge” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.