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English
Etymology
From Latin vulgus.
Pronunciation
Noun
volge pl (plural only)
- (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
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of volgen
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Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
volge
- third-person singular present indicative of volgere
Latin
Noun
volge
- vocative singular of volgus
References
Middle High German
Etymology
From Old High German folga.
Noun
volge f
- entourage, retinue (group of attendants)
- band, armed retinue, party, company (group of followers under arms)
- assent, agreement
- obedience
Descendants
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.