volubilis

See also: Volubilis

Latin

Etymology

From volvo (“I turn around, I roll”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯oˈluː.bi.lis/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪uːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /voˈlu.bi.lis/, [voˈluːbilis]

Adjective

volūbilis (neuter volūbile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. that turns itself around, turning, spinning, whirling, rolling, revolving
2. (figuratively, of speech) rapid, fluent, voluble
3. (figuratively, of fate) changeable, mutable

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	volūbilis	volūbile		volūbilēs	volūbilia
Genitive	volūbilis			volūbilium
Dative	volūbilī			volūbilibus
Accusative	volūbilem	volūbile		volūbilēs volūbilīs	volūbilia
Ablative	volūbilī			volūbilibus
Vocative	volūbilis	volūbile		volūbilēs	volūbilia

Derived terms

• volūbilitās
• volūbiliter

Descendants

• Catalan: voluble
• English: voluble, volubile
• French: volubile
  • Romanian: volubil
• Galician: voluble
• Italian: volubile
• Portuguese: volúvel
• Spanish: voluble

References

• “volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• volubilis 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)
• volubilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “volubilis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “volubilis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press