volumen
See also: Volumen and volúmen
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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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯oˈluː.men/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪uːmɛn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈlu.men/, [voˈluːmen]
Noun
volūmen n (genitive volūminis); third declension
- book, volume, roll, scroll
- revolution, turn
- (poetic) fold, coil, whirl
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | volūmen | volūmina |
Genitive | volūminis | volūminum |
Dative | volūminī | volūminibus |
Accusative | volūmen | volūmina |
Ablative | volūmine | volūminibus |
Vocative | volūmen | volūmina |
Derived terms
- volūminōsus
Related terms
- volvō
- volūcra
Descendants
- Asturian: valume, volume
- Albanian: vëllim
- Catalan: volum
- Danish: volumen
- Galician: volume
- Italian: volume
- → Old French: volume
- French: volume
- → English: volume
- Polish: wolumen
- Serbo-Croatian: volumen
- Spanish: volumen
- Portuguese: volume
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
- 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
Declension of volumen
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | volumen | volumeni |
genitive | volumena | volumena |
dative | volumenu | volumenima |
accusative | volumen | volumene |
vocative | volumene | volumeni |
locative | volumenu | volumenima |
instrumental | volumenom | volumenima |
Synonyms
- (Croatian): obújam
- (Bosnian, Serbian): zapremina
Spanish
Alternative forms
- volúmen (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin volūmen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈlumen/ [boˈlu.mẽn]
- 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)
Related terms
- voluminoso
Further reading
- “volumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014