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”).[1]

    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

    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

    Descendants

    • Aromanian: volbu
    • Catalan: vogir
    • 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
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *volutulō
    • → Swedish: Volvo

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “volvō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 689-90

    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
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