volge

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English

Etymology

From Latin vulgus.

Pronunciation

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 , →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.

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Dutch

Verb

volge

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

Verb

volge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of volgere

Latin

Noun

volge

  1. vocative singular of volgus

References

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German folga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈvolɡə/, /ˈfolɡə/

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

Declension

Descendants

  • German: Folge
  • Old 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.