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Latin
Etymology
From volvo (“I turn around, I roll”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
volūbilis (neuter volūbile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- that turns itself around, turning, spinning, whirling, rolling, revolving
- (figuratively, of speech) rapid, fluent, voluble
- (figuratively, of fate) changeable, mutable
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- volubilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- volubilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “volubilis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “volubilis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press