vola

See also: volá, volà, vôľa, and vøla

English

Noun

vola (plural volae)

  1. A velum of silica in some diatoms
  2. The hollow of the hand or foot.

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

vola

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of volar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of volar

Esperanto

Adjective

vola (accusative singular volan, plural volaj, accusative plural volajn)

  1. voluntary

Fijian

Noun

vola

  1. letter (of an alphabet)

French

Verb

vola

  1. third-person singular past historic of voler

Anagrams

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔːla

Verb

vola (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative volaði, supine volað)

  1. to blubber, to cry, to weep
  2. to whine, to wail

Conjugation

volast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að volast
supine
(sagnbót)		 volast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 volandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég volast við volumst present
(nútíð)		 ég volist við volumst
þú volast þið volist þú volist þið volist
hann, hún, það volast þeir, þær, þau volast hann, hún, það volist þeir, þær, þau volist
past
(þátíð)		 ég volaðist við voluðumst past
(þátíð)		 ég volaðist við voluðumst
þú volaðist þið voluðust þú volaðist þið voluðust
hann, hún, það volaðist þeir, þær, þau voluðust hann, hún, það volaðist þeir, þær, þau voluðust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 volast (þú) volist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
volastu volisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Interlingua

Verb

vola

  1. present of volar
  2. imperative of volar

Italian

Verb

vola

  1. third-person singular present of volare
  2. second-person singular imperative of volare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Proto-Italic *welā, from Proto-Indo-European *welH-os (“round”) (whence also Old Norse valr (“round”)), from *welH- (“to turn”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwo.la/, [ˈwɔ.ɫa]

Noun

vola f (genitive volae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) The palm of the hand or the sole of the foot; a volar surface.
  2. A footprint
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative vola volae
genitive volae volārum
dative volae volīs
accusative volam volās
ablative volā volīs
vocative vola volae

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

volā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of volō

References

  • vola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vola”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 686

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔɫa/

Noun

vola

  1. genitive singular of vôl

Volapük

Noun

vola

  1. genitive singular of vol
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