vultus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === voltus, vultum, voltum === Etymology === From earlier voltus (the standard spelling into the 1st century CE) with regular /ol → ul/ before consonants, from Proto-Italic *woltus, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”), probably e-grade with regular /el → ol/. Cognate to Welsh gweld, Tocharian B yel- (“to examine”) and Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌸𐌿𐍃 (wulþus, “glory”) (from zero-grade). === Pronunciation === vultus: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwʊɫ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvul.tus] vultūs: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwʊɫ.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvul.tus] === Noun === vultus m (genitive vultūs); fourth declension a facial expression, look, countenance Synonym: ōs the expression appropriate to a type of person or situation; a visage, mien, demeanor (anatomy, often in the plural) the front of the head, face Synonyms: frōns, ōs the face as involved in looking; the view, gaze Synonym: aspectus the distinctive appearance, looks, features Synonym: speciēs (of beings and things) the outward appearance, face, aspect ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Galician: vulto Italian: volto Old French: volt Old Occitan: volt Occitan: vòlt Portuguese: vulto Spanish: bulto, vulto ==== See also ==== cara === References === “uultus” on page 2340 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012) Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1136 === Further reading === “vultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "vultus", 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) “vultus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1698. vultus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3565 Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.