volubilis

== Latin == === Etymology === From vol|vō, ~vere, ~vī, ~ūtum (“to turn around, to roll”) +‎ -bil|is, ~e. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɔˈɫuː.bɪ.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [voˈluː.bi.lis] Hyphenation: vo‧lū‧bi‧lis === Adjective === volūbilis (neuter volūbile); third-declension two-termination adjective (literally) turning, spinning, whirling, rolling, revolving (that turns itself around) (figuratively, of speech) rapid, fluent, voluble (figuratively, of fate) changeable, mutable ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== volūbilitās volūbiliter ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: voluble English: voluble, volubile French: volubile Romanian: volubil Galician: voluble Italian: volubile Portuguese: volúvel Spanish: voluble === References === “volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “volubilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "volubilis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “volubilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “volubilis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “volubilis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press