Volusius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɔˈɫʊ.si.ʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈluː.s̬i.us]

Proper noun

Volusius m (genitive Volusiī or Volusī); second declension

The name of a Roman gens, (famously held by Volusius Venustus, a Roman aristocrat)
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, 36 lines 1–2; 18–20:
  Annālēs Volusī, cacāta carta,
  vōtum solvite prō meā puellā.
  [...]
  At vōs intereā venīte in ignem,
  plēnī rūris et īnfacētiārum
  annālēs Volusī, cacāta carta.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Volusius
genitive	Volusiī Volusī¹
dative	Volusiō
accusative	Volusium
ablative	Volusiō
vocative	Volusī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Volusia

References

“Volusius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Volusius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.