voluntas

Ido

Verb

voluntas

present of voluntar

Latin

Etymology

Derived from the old present participle stem *welont- +‎ -(t)ās. Confer with volēns (“willing”) and post-classical volentia (“will”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯oˈlun.taːs/, [u̯ɔˈɫ̪ʊn̪t̪äːs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /voˈlun.tas/, [voˈlun̪t̪äs]

Noun

voluntās f (genitive voluntātis); third declension

will, free will, choice
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.44:
  Si iterum experiri velint, se iterum paratum esse decertare; si pace uti velint, iniquum esse de stipendio recusare, quod sua voluntate ad id tempus pependerint.
  If they chose to make a second trial, he was ready to encounter them again; but if they chose to enjoy peace, it was unfair to refuse the tribute, which of their own free-will they had paid up to that time.
- 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Lucas 2:14
  Gloria in altissimis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
  Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will.
desire, inclination
disposition towards (something or someone)
favor, affection
last will, testament
goal, object, purpose, intention
Synonyms: intentiō, propositum, fīnis, cōnsilium, animus, mēns
signification, import

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	voluntās	voluntātēs
Genitive	voluntātis	voluntātum
Dative	voluntātī	voluntātibus
Accusative	voluntātem	voluntātēs
Ablative	voluntāte	voluntātibus
Vocative	voluntās	voluntātēs

Related terms

volō
voluntāriē
voluntārius

Descendants

Albanian: vullnet
Basque: borondate
Dalmatian: voluntuot
English: volunty
Friulian: volontât
Italian: voluntà, volontà
Ladin: veluntad, ulentà
Ligurian: voentæ, vuluntà
Old French: volonté, voulonté, volunté, voulunté, volenté
- French: volonté
Old Occitan: volontat
- Old Catalan: volentat
  - Catalan: voluntat
- Occitan: volontat
Old Portuguese: voontade
- Portuguese: vontade
Piedmontese: voluntà
Romansch: voluntad, volunted, voluntà
Sardinian: bolontade, boluntadi, volontade
Old Spanish: veluntad, voluntad
- Ladino: veluntad
- Spanish: voluntad

References

“voluntas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“voluntas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
voluntas 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)
voluntas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- when life runs smoothly: in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem fluentibus
- to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces: benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare or colligere (ex aliqua re)
- to look favourably upon; to support: propenso animo, studio esse or propensa voluntate esse in aliquem (opp. averso animo esse ab aliquo)
- to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: se conformare, se accommodare ad alicuius voluntatem
- to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: alicuius voluntati morem gerere
- to become estranged, alienated from some one: voluntatemor animum alicuius a se abalienare, aliquem a se abalienare or alienare
- to satisfy a person's wishes: voluntati alicuius satisfacere, obsequi
- a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
- the last wishes of a deceased person: alicuius mortui voluntas (suprema)
- the spirit of the law: sententia or voluntas legis
- unpopularity: offensa populi voluntas
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1137