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Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin volūmen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈlumen/
- Rhymes: -umen
- Syllabification: vo‧lu‧men
Noun
volumen m
- volume
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
volumen
- plural of volume
Latin
Etymology
For *volvimen, *volvumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) + -men (noun-forming suffix); hence literally "a thing that is rolled".
Pronunciation
Noun
volūmen n (genitive volūminis); third declension
- book, volume, roll, scroll
- revolution, turn
- (poetic) fold, coil, roll, whirl, band
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.207–208:
- “ pars cētera pontum
pōne legit, sinuatque immēnsa volūmine terga.”- “ the other part skims the sea behind , and bends in a coil immense backs.” – Aeneas
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “volumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- volumen 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)
- volumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to open a book: volumen explicare
- “volumen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
volúmen m (Cyrillic spelling волу́мен)
- volume (measure of space)
Declension
Synonyms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin volūmen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈlumen/
- Rhymes: -umen
- Syllabification: vo‧lu‧men
Noun
volumen m (plural volúmenes)
- volume (a three-dimensional measure of space)
- volume (a bound book)
- volume (strength of sound)
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