volaemum
Latin
Alternative forms
- volēmum
Etymology
Unknown. Natively explained a being so called because one is so large that the vola (“cupped hand”) envelops the former when the latter approaches from below, possibly with the same suffix as Proto-Slavic *golěmъ (“large”), after Maurus Servius Honoratus’s Commentary to Georgica 2, 88: Nam et volema ab eo quod volam impleant dicta sunt. Unde et involare dicimus. Whereafter it is noted dismissively, in a probable interpolation, that it is the word for “large” in Gaulish: Volema autem, Gallica lingua, bona et grandia dicuntur. sed magis dicta sunt ab eo, quod volam implicant.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯oˈlae̯.mum/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪äe̯mʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈle.mum/, [voˈlɛːmum]
Noun
volaemum n (genitive volaemī); second declension
- large kind of pear
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | volaemum | volaema |
| Genitive | volaemī | volaemōrum |
| Dative | volaemō | volaemīs |
| Accusative | volaemum | volaema |
| Ablative | volaemō | volaemīs |
| Vocative | volaemum | volaema |