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to be going to, to intend, to be about to, to be on the point of
Usage notes
Nōn velle is used in place of nōlle in the second person present indicative active forms and the third person singular present indicative active.
Conjugation
Its present infinitive, velle, descends from the athematic infinitive form Proto-Italic*wel-zi (*-zi being the source of the usual infinitive ending -re as well). The second person singular present form vīs is suppletive and belongs to the root Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-(“to strive after, pursue”); the original form appears to be preserved as the conjunction vel (from Proto-Italic *wel-s).
Conjugation of volō (irregular, suppletive in the second-person singular indicative present, active only, no imperatives)
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “volō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 687–688
Further reading
“volo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“volo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
volo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to be favourably disposed towards: alicuius causavelle or cupere
convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic volo te tibi persuadere
he attained his object: id quod voluit consecutus est
he attained his object: ad id quod voluit pervenit
what is the meaning of this: quid hoc sibi vult?
to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
to wish to speak to some one: velle aliquem (Plaut. Capt. 5. 2. 24)
a word with you: paucis te volo
a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
(ambiguous) the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
(ambiguous) vivid, lively imagination: ingenii vis or celeritas
(ambiguous) what do you mean to do: quid tibi vis?
(ambiguous) oratorical power: vis dicendi
(ambiguous) what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae est vis huius verbi?
(ambiguous) the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
(ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 687