volumen

See also: Volumen and volúmen

Latin

Etymology

For *volvimen, *volvumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix); hence literally "a thing that is rolled".

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /woˈluː.men/, [wɔˈɫuː.mẽ]

Noun

volūmen n (genitive volūminis); third declension

  1. book, volume, roll, scroll
  2. revolution, turn
  3. (poetic) fold, coil, whirl

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative volūmen volūmina
genitive volūminis volūminum
dative volūminī volūminibus
accusative volūmen volūmina
ablative volūmine volūminibus
vocative volūmen volūmina

Derived terms

  • volūminōsus

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, 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)

  1. volume (measure of space)

Declension

Synonyms

Spanish

Noun

volumen m (plural volúmenes)

  1. volume
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.