volaemum

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Latin

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Etymology

Unknown. Natively explained a being so called because one is so large that the vola (“cupped hand”) envelops the former when the latter approaches from below, possibly with the same suffix as Proto-Slavic *golěmъ (“large”), after Maurus Servius Honoratus’s Commentary to Georgica 2, 88: Nam et volema ab eo quod volam impleant dicta sunt. Unde et involare dicimus. Whereafter it is noted dismissively, in a probable interpolation, that it is the word for “large” in Gaulish: Volema autem, Gallica lingua, bona et grandia dicuntur. sed magis dicta sunt ab eo, quod volam implicant.

Pronunciation

Noun

volaemum n (genitive volaemī); second declension

  1. large kind of pear

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative volaemum volaema
genitive volaemī volaemōrum
dative volaemō volaemīs
accusative volaemum volaema
ablative volaemō volaemīs
vocative volaemum volaema
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